Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.<br/>Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:<br/>Conspiring with him how to load and bless<br/>With fruit the vines that round the <br/>thatch-eves run;<br/>To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress<br/>And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;<br/>To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells<br/>With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,<br/>And still more, later flowers for bees,<br/>Until they think warm days will never cease,<br/>For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.<br/>The above passage derives its theme from

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.<br/>Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:<br/>Conspiring with him how to load and bless<br/>With fruit the vines that round the <br/>thatch-eves run;<br/>To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress<br/>And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;<br/>To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells<br/>With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,<br/>And still more, later flowers for bees,<br/>Until they think warm days will never cease,<br/>For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.<br/>The dominant images in the above passage are

As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of

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The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.<br/>In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of