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Literature In English Questions

Question 31:
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 mood of the poet is one of________
  • A Loneliness
  • B Hopelessness
  • C Happiness
  • D Recklessness
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Question 32:
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/>'The earth has stopped breathing and sighed' illustrates__________
  • A Bathos
  • B Paradox
  • C Climax
  • D Personification
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Question 33:
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/>The run-on lines convey the speaker's_______
  • A Lamentation
  • B Disappointment
  • C Defiance
  • D Indignation
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Question 34:
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/>There is a predominance of words associated with________
  • A Governance
  • B Nature
  • C Nurture
  • D Celebration
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Question 35:
Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________
  • A Rebuke African superstitious beliefs
  • B Represent the image of African traditionalism
  • C Condemn male chauvinism
  • D Demonstrate the plight of widowhood
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