Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'<br/>In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.<br/>But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.<br/>Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'<br/>The passage above is an example of

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'<br/>Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'<br/>The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'<br/>Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'<br/>The terseness of the prose above is employed to

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'<br/>Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'<br/>The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing