Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.<br/><br/><br/>The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of<br/>The literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/><br/><br/>Move him into the sun<br/>Gently its touch awoke him once,<br/>At home, whispering of field unsown<br/>Always it woke him even in France<br/>Until this morning and this snow<br/>If anything might rouse him now<br/>This kind of old sun will know<br/>Think how it woke the seeds<br/>Woke, once, the clay of a cold star<br/>Are limbs, so dear achieved, are<br/>sides full nerved still warm too hard<br/>to stir was it, for this the clay grew<br/>tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams<br/>toil to break earth's sleep at all.<br/>The poem can be described as

In literary devices, pun deals with

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/><br/><br/>O! Ceremony, show me but thy worth what is thy soul of adoration.<br/>The figure of speech in the lines above is

This question is based on William Romeo and Juliet.<br/><br/><br/>In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to