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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1166:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing
  • A Retrospection
  • B Flashback
  • C Historical drama
  • D Dramatic shift
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Question 1167:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>'I love to pass my fingers,<br/>As tide through weeds of the sea<br/>And wind the tall fern-fronds<br/>Through the strands of your hair<br/>Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'<br/>J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'<br/>The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is
  • A Metaphor
  • B Alliteration
  • C Rhythm
  • D Simile
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Question 1168:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'You Kiss her on the cheek <br/>As white people do,<br/>You Kiss her open-sore lips<br/>As white people do,<br/>You suck slimy saliva <br/>From each other's mouths,<br/>As white people do.'<br/>Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'<br/>The writer of the lines above uses repetition
  • A For emphasis
  • B To underscore disapproval
  • C To enhance irony
  • D For imitation
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Question 1169:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>The branch of knowledge that places emphasis on beauty is
  • A Censure
  • B Aesthetics
  • C Philosophy
  • D Philology
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Question 1170:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'I cannot blind myself<br/>to putrefying carcasses in the market place <br/>pulling giant vultures<br/>from the sky.<br/>Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?<br/>The tone of the lines above is one of
  • A Defiance
  • B Anger
  • C Mourning
  • D Anxiety
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