Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>The theme of a literary work is the

This question is based on General Literary Principles.<br/>A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes'.Alex La Guma, 'Time of the Butcherbird'<br/>From the italicized lines above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a

This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>'Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding beneath the shorts. There is a larg hole in the right sleeve of Malick's sweater; the arm on the same side hangs down limply. One of the boys supporting him explained to me: <br/>'A motorcyclist knocked down Malick and Alioune.<br/>We were playing football'''<br/>Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'<br/>The use of the present tense in the passage