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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Literature In English Questions

Question 476:
In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'<br/>'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains <br/>My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk', <br/>the poet uses
  • A Alternative rhymes
  • B Heroic couplet
  • C Bank verse
  • D Octosyllabic metre
  • E Terza rima.
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Question 477:
The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth
  • A Death and burial
  • B Man's mortality
  • C The changes in seasons
  • D The propitiation of ancestors
  • E The falling od dew-drops.
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Question 478:
''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.<br/>The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Traverse'indicate that the poet
  • A Is a traveller
  • B An explorer who collect things
  • C Enjoys amorous adventures
  • D Loves a woman
  • E Has a deep-rooted love for his country
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Question 479:
The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because
  • A People stay in their houses
  • B Crimes are committed at night
  • C The people can rest their tired bones at night
  • D Black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
  • E Night brings alot of enjoyment
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Question 480:
The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes
  • A Racial prejudice
  • B Falsehood
  • C Truth
  • D Moral indecision
  • E Social classes.
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