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/><br/><br/>'As if men hung here unbloom,<br/>Their mildewed buds of love like pollen<br/>Late caught, damp in a swollen...'<br/>The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

Travelogue is a work of art written

Sweet smile in time of snarl<br/>gives pride in spite of sneer<br/>sing, rid this world of despair<br/>and save, a snared heart from<br/>cascading stream of strife<br/><br/>The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is