Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

'... like some fish <br/>Doped out of the deep<br/>I have bobbed up bellywise <br/>From stream of sleep'.<br/>The above lines from 'Night Rain' are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker

A Drank like a fishb
B Took a heavy dose of sleeping pills
C Slept with his belly facing upwards
D Dreamt of fish in deep streams
E Was suddenly roused from sleep.

Question 657:

In Soyinka's 'Abiku', the statement, 'The ripest fruit was saddest', is an example of

A Metaphysical conceit
B Equivocation
C Slasng
D A paradox
E A proverb

Question 658:

When David Diop in 'The Vultures' says that 'civilization kicked us in the face' and 'holy water slapped our cringing brows', he is using

A Slapstick
B A curse
C Invective
D Personification
E Sacrilege.

Question 659:

The mood expressed in 'We Have Come Home' by Lenrie Peters is that of

A Hope and joy at one's return
B Tension over the past and uncertainty of the future
C Jubilation and a sense of achievement
D Cautions optimism
E Apprehension and defeat

Question 660:

In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop expresses his

A Hope that African will triumph over colonialism
B Hatred of Africans
C Affections of the colonial masters
D Love of forced romances
E Hatred of women.