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Pregunta 1 Informe
Soyinka's main concern in The Trials of Brother Jero is to
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Pregunta 2 Informe
A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is
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Pregunta 5 Informe
Which of the following adjectives best describes the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart?
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Pregunta 6 Informe
'Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour'. Brutus' words in the above lines come
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Pregunta 7 Informe
There is a tide in the affairs of man
Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows, and miseries.
This is a statement made by
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Pregunta 8 Informe
Brother Jero himself identifies ONE of the following as his main weakness
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Pregunta 9 Informe
'All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant's coming
Then did the branches talk in agony'.
There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of
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Pregunta 14 Informe
'Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died by coccidiosis.'
In the passage taken from Animal Farm, the truth is that the
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Pregunta 15 Informe
The expression 'All the world is a stage' is a good example of the figure of speech known as
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Pregunta 16 Informe
Most of the information in the Trial of Brother Jero is conveyed when Brother Jero speaks to himself in dramatic monologues otherwise known as a
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Pregunta 17 Informe
'No sentimentality, comrade! War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.'
This statement in Animal Farm was made by
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Pregunta 18 Informe
In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'
'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of
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Pregunta 20 Informe
In addition to describing scenes of an African village night, Senghor's poem, 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definite statement about
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Pregunta 21 Informe
Marcus Antonius roused the public to mutiny in his funeral speech in Julius Ceasar partly because he succeeded in discrediting Brutus ans Cassius by calling them 'honorable men', when in fact he consciously organized his speech to prove that they were dishonorable. This device is known as
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Pregunta 22 Informe
The novel Thin gs Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was first published in
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Pregunta 24 Informe
'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.The quality which this passage displays is
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Pregunta 25 Informe
'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of
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Pregunta 26 Informe
The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem,'Night', can be accurately described as
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Pregunta 27 Informe
'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'
The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of
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Pregunta 29 Informe
'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of
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Pregunta 30 Informe
We sang that song before
In the thousand seasons of good harvest
And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints
On the long shores.A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is
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Pregunta 31 Informe
'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.It is obvious from this passage that Simi is
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Pregunta 32 Informe
Amope was introduced as a character into The Trials OF Brother Jero primarily to dramatize the
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Pregunta 33 Informe
The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by
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Pregunta 34 Informe
Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because
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Pregunta 37 Informe
'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of
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Pregunta 39 Informe
The Yoruba incantatory poem, 'When a Strainer Takes in Water', is meant to be recited in order to
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Pregunta 40 Informe
You would often hear on hen remark to another,
Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, i have laid five eggs in six days'. or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,
'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water taste!'It is obvious from this passage that the narrator
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Pregunta 42 Informe
'I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as
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Pregunta 43 Informe
The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called
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Pregunta 44 Informe
In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is
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Pregunta 46 Informe
'O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.
In our own proper entrails'.
These lines were spoken by
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Pregunta 47 Informe
The run on' lines in J.P Clark's poem, 'Night Rain', suggest the
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Pregunta 48 Informe
The suddenly her heart was whipped up, she now rode on strange waves: alone defying the wind and the rain; alone, fighting hunger and thirst in the desert, alone, struggling with strange demons in the forest bringing glad tidings to her people.
The mood of the lady in this passage is one of
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Pregunta 49 Informe
'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death'.Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?
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Pregunta 50 Informe
Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to
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