Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you<br/>can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide<br/>going out revealing whatever has been thrown away <br/>and sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting<br/>pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin<br/>you've made."<br/>Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye<br/>The passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

"But everything does have a beginning, and so if I<br/>am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know<br/>the starting point of my tale."<br/>Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew<br/>The furrow followed free<br/>We were the first that ever burst<br/>Into that silent sea."<br/>Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

"The poet needs to be up at night,when the world<br/>sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders<br/>forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where<br/>the underside of our dreams fester."<br/>Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

"Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,<br/>Whose word no man relies on,<br/>Who never said a foolish thing<br/>Nor ever did a wise one,"<br/>Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an example of