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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Literature In English Questions

Question 106:
<b>Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,<br/>Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells<br/>sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves<br/>Wole Soyinka: "Night"</b><br/><br/>The dominant mood in the lines above is one at ____________
  • A Apprehension
  • B Defiance
  • C Joy
  • D Indifference
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Question 107:
<b>"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Stark: "Casualties"</b><br/><br/>The poet in the excerpt above uses
  • A Litotes
  • B Symbolism
  • C Onomatopoeia
  • D Aliteration
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Question 108:
<b>"... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: “Casualties"</b><br/>The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______
  • A Metaphor
  • B Personification
  • C Synecdoche
  • D Metonymy
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Question 109:
<b>“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”.</b> A.L. Tennyson: <b>“Ulysses”</b><br/> The lines above inform the reader that the poet
  • A Is determined to suffer
  • B Has his poetic imagination kindled
  • C Will cure his sour mood
  • D Will not drink much
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Question 110:
Use the following excerpt to answer the question.<br/><br/>And awake me. from my sweet dreams be lost,<br/>Sucking blood from my poor head...<br/>Mbure: <b>"To Bed-Bug"</b><br/>The lines are an example of a________?
  • A Limerick
  • B Lampoon
  • C Light verse
  • D Light opera
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