Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.


The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
The literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.


Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of field unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind of old sun will know
Think how it woke the seeds
Woke, once, the clay of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are
sides full nerved still warm too hard
to stir was it, for this the clay grew
tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams
toil to break earth's sleep at all.
The poem can be described as

In literary devices, pun deals with

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.


O! Ceremony, show me but thy worth what is thy soul of adoration.
The figure of speech in the lines above is

This question is based on William Romeo and Juliet.


In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to