Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

'Nightfall! Nightfall!<br/>You are my mortal enemy'<br/>The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________

... is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece

In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

Read the poem and answer questions<br/>At dawn must I rise to till the rock<br/>That our land has turned into<br/>The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy<br/>Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy<br/>Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges<br/>Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect<br/>For the life of fellow man by his fellow<br/>Kindred blood has counted for less than no value<br/>Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother<br/>Communal loot has emptied our country silos<br/>The earth has stopped breathing and sighed<br/>Soldered tears has the moon shed<br/>The earth was scorched at noon-day night<br/>And our land has turned to hoeing rock.<br/> <br/><br/>The theme of the poem is__________