Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!
Life and desire and dreams and death
Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,
The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!
Life and desire and dreams and death
Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,
The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.
The reaction in the passage above is that of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle,
CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next.
sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy when you've abandoned it for some time...
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.
The literary devices in the dialogue above are

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'For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'John Updike, Wash
The images set in the lines above are of