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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 711:
'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons <br/>The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'<br/>The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with
  • A Redemption from ignorance
  • B Violence and oppression
  • C Conversion from paganism
  • D The building of beautiful edifices.
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Question 712:
Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of
  • A Repetition of symbolic references
  • B Rhetorical questions
  • C Exaggeration
  • D Flowering language.
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Question 713:
The gurgling drums <br/>Echo the stars<br/>The forest howls<br/>And between the tress<br/>The dark sun appears.<br/>The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is
  • A Synecdoche
  • B Simile
  • C Metaphor
  • D Personification.
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Question 714:
The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase
  • A Clash of cultures
  • B Primal youth of the African
  • C Beauty of the Concerto
  • D The decay of African Civilization.
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Question 715:
Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence. <br/>The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called
  • A Oxymoron
  • B Metaphor
  • C Simile
  • D Hyperbole.
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