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These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winton's dreams of

  • A. freedom and democracy
  • B. wealth and capitalism
  • C. sovereignty
  • D. internal security
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the

  • A. people's struggle for survival
  • B. intolerance of the new generation
  • C. celebration of African tradition
  • D. criticism of modern tradition
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Launko's End of the War portrays the

  • A. silence of battlefield
  • B. irony of life
  • C. arrangement of war
  • D. usefulness of praise singers
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

'Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

  • A. litotes
  • B. transferred epithet
  • C. synechdoche
  • D. rhetorical question
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

'Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

  • A. litotes
  • B. transferred epithet
  • C. synechdoche
  • D. rhetorical question
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