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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1206:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,<br/>I summon up remembrance of things past,...<br/>Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'<br/>The lines above contain the predominant use of
  • A A motif
  • B Irony
  • C Sarcasm
  • D Alliteration
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Question 1207:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>Hyperbole refers specifically to
  • A Exaggeration for adornment
  • B Exaggeration for emphasis
  • C Understatement of ideas
  • D Restatement of ideas
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Question 1208:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>The term assonance refers of
  • A Repetition of alphabets in lines of a poem
  • B Agreement of vowel sounds in a line
  • C Repetition of vowels in a line
  • D Agreement of consonants in a line
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Question 1209:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>A story which explains the origin of a natural phenomenon is a
  • A Fiction
  • B Legend
  • C Parable
  • D Myth
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Question 1210:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.<br/>Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'<br/>By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves
  • A Sympathy
  • B Confidentiality
  • C Authenticity
  • D Irony
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