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Question 2 Report
The effect of Pip's association with the inmates of Satis house was made to make him
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Question 3 Report
From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala
It can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that
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Question 4 Report
A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called
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Question 5 Report
The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase
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'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me
Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?
The speaker of these words is the father of
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Question 7 Report
Baba Fakunle: How much did he give you boy?
Boy: Ten cowries, Baba.
Baba Fakunle: Hand him back nine.
The order to return nine cowries was given by Baba Fakunle because he
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Question 9 Report
The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of
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Question 10 Report
'Chini was breathing with a love ripeness in her eye. She was elegant, sophistication, and Nigerian costume with charm. her every movement stimulated a flow of poetry from Francois and an ebb of embarrassment from her. she called him "My mad French lover".'
The tone of this passage is
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Question 11 Report
When Mr. Jagger''s told Joe Gargery to ''bear in mind, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better'', what he meant was that
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Question 12 Report
In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop suggests that the Christians missionaries were agents of
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Question 13 Report
From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark's Abiku' is set in
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The specific case cited by Antony in his funeral oration to show that Caesar was not as ambitious as Brutus made him out to be, was that Caesar had
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'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'
In this passage, axe of intemperance means
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Question 16 Report
'' It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.'
The picture presented above is one of
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Question 17 Report
'...He would be crown'd.
How that may change his nature, there's the question
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.
And that craves wary walking...'
According to this passage, the crowning of Julius Caesar is
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Question 19 Report
Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem?
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Question 20 Report
Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two 'Abiku' poems by J.P Clark and Wole Soyinka?
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Question 21 Report
In Julius Caesar, one occasion when the misunderstanding of the ordinary people of Rome caused a big problem was
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Question 22 Report
'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of
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Question 23 Report
'No; This my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green and red .'
In the above lines the figure of speech used is
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Question 24 Report
''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''
In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa
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Question 25 Report
In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was
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Question 26 Report
Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of
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Question 27 Report
The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as
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Question 28 Report
From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.
The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of
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Question 29 Report
A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called
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Question 32 Report
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth-
The sweeping up the heart
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words
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Question 33 Report
Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.
The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called
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Question 34 Report
'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of
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The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as
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Question 37 Report
'...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he
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Question 41 Report
Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense is starkest madness.
'This the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,-you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
This poem reflects the
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Question 42 Report
'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons
The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'
The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with
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Question 43 Report
Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the
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Question 45 Report
When the speech is written so as to be understood in one way by a certain character, while the audience or another character understands it to have some secret and special meaning, the literary device used in this context is called
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Question 46 Report
In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he
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Question 47 Report
The gurgling drums
Echo the stars
The forest howls
And between the tress
The dark sun appears.
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is
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Question 48 Report
The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.'
This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to
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Question 50 Report
Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of
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