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Question 2 Report
'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.
In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to
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Question 3 Report
'A dungeon horrible, one all sides round'
As one great furnace flamed, yet for those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible'.
The phrase 'darkness visible' in the above lines is an example of
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Question 6 Report
The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres
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Question 7 Report
'Have you got any hands today?
'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike
'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'
'No thank you'.
In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as
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Question 8 Report
In ''Abiku'', the statement ''Yams do not sprout in amulets To earth Abiku''s limbs....''Simply means
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Question 10 Report
In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because
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Question 11 Report
A close reading of The Victims reveals that Ogugua's pr-marital and extra-marital affairs are a reflection of her
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Question 12 Report
'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'
These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by
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Question 13 Report
The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are
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In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from
Question 16 Report
'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'
The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is
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Question 17 Report
'From forth the fatal lions of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...'
These lines from Romeo and Juliet suggest that the
Question 18 Report
'The early morning smoke had now gone off the eyes of the day. Trees and houses were still wet from last night's rain, but a cool breeze caressed the world like a gentle hand.'
The dominant literary device in this passage is
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Question 20 Report
At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as
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Question 22 Report
FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?
Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?
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Question 23 Report
'what happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?'
In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of
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Question 24 Report
In David Diop's 'The Vultures', the statement 'And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howing on the plantations,' suggests that
Question 25 Report
''But it is not the timeTo lay wreathsFor yesterdays crimes...''Lenrie Peters in his poem, We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because
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Question 26 Report
'Olu hissed, slammed the door and dash out screaming'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above sentence is
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Question 28 Report
In Great Expectations, Pips nursing of Magwitch is significant because it
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Question 29 Report
Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet?
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Question 30 Report
'But Obatal,
God Creation,
Has a way
Of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the
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Question 31 Report
Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate
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Question 32 Report
She said you just had to make an emotional commitment in marriage. It was like skiing, you could not see in advance what would happen but you had to let go. Maybe that was why I failed, because I didn't know what I had to let go of. For me it hadn't been like skiing, it was more like jumping off a cliff. That was the feeling I had all the time I was married, in the air, going down, waiting for the smash at the bottom.
The passage indicates that the author's experience in marriage was
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Question 33 Report
''His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling''.This description in Great expectations refers to
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Question 36 Report
At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was
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Question 37 Report
''...her vesper done of all its wreathed pearls her hair she fees. Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees''.The passage gives ample evidence of the poet''s
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Question 38 Report
'Was it for this you took such constant care
The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare?
For this your locks in paper durance bound?
For this with tort'ring iron wreath'd round?
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
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Question 39 Report
In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies
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Question 40 Report
In The Victims, the affection between Ubaka and Bomboy is significant because it
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Question 41 Report
'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.
The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of
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Question 43 Report
Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'?
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Question 45 Report
In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by
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Question 46 Report
'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the check of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'
Romeo and JulietIn these lines Juliet's beauty is presented
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Question 47 Report
'The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'
The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by
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Question 48 Report
The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called
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Question 49 Report
In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line
'So drunken like ancient walls'
Means that the worshipers are drunken with
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Question 50 Report
'For i have known them all already, known them all.
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons'.
The tone in these lines suggest
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