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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Literature In English Questions

Question 631:
'There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, <br/>The earth and every common sight <br/>To me did seem<br/>Appareled in celestial light <br/>The glory and the freshness of a dream.<br/>It is not now as it hath been of yore:<br/>Turn wheresoever i may,<br/>By night or day<br/>The things which have seen i now can see no more.'<br/>The mood captured in this passage is one of
  • A Nostalgia
  • B Despair
  • C Confidence
  • D Hope
  • E Joy
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Question 632:
'Political languages is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure minds.'<br/>The writer here suggesting that political language is
  • A Convincing
  • B Deceptive
  • C Interesting
  • D Destructive
  • E Commendable.
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Question 633:
'The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.'<br/>In describing the action of the climber, the writer has used the literary device of
  • A Simile
  • B Hyperbole
  • C Irony
  • D Onomotopoeia
  • E Personification.
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Question 634:
'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that
  • A The sun setb after the arrival of Stanley
  • B Stanley was shut out of Western civilization
  • C Stanley symbolizes the advert of colonization
  • D Stanley was very well recieved
  • E Stanley thought he would be eaten up by the natives.
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Question 635:
I am not afraid of anything ;, he told them 'I have done almost everything in this world. I have committed all crimes you can think of and been called for most of them. I have been in prison more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years. In recounting his criminal life, this speaker's tone is
  • A Repentant
  • B Boastful
  • C Regretful
  • D Subdued
  • E Remorseful
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