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Question 1 Report
In Mission to Kala When Medza encounters Edima,
What strikes him about her is her
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Question 4 Report
Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
The dominant mood in this passage is one of
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Question 5 Report
Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,
'He's coming', she said 'i heard the gate open.'In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating
Question 10 Report
Brutus: This is sleepy tune. O murd'rous slumber!
Layest thou the leaden mace upon my boy,
That plays the music? Gentle knave, good night.
'Gentle knave' refers to
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Question 11 Report
In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of
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Question 12 Report
As a literary from the short story is most closely related to
Question 13 Report
As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because
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Question 14 Report
Miss Havisham grooms Estella the way she does so as to make Estella
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Question 15 Report
A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as
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Question 16 Report
'Just because i am an Ijebu man, and do not belong to your tribe, the sight of me as your king gnaws at your liver, and rips your heart asunder...'
The speaker's statement is prompted by
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Question 18 Report
When David Diop in 'The Vultures' says that 'civilization kicked us in the face' and 'holy water slapped our cringing brows', he is using
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Question 19 Report
The major lesson Pip's experience in Great Expectations teaches us is that
Question 20 Report
'Is Aderopo jealous that i am sharing a bed with his mother? Very well then, let him come and sleep with his mother'.
Odewale's statement is a good example of
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Question 21 Report
'... like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise
From stream of sleep'.
The above lines from 'Night Rain' are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker
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Question 22 Report
'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.
The narrator here is full of
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Question 23 Report
'I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,
Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents'.
In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word 'Forests' stands for
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Question 25 Report
A 'gentleman' in the sense in which it is used in Great Expectations is
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Question 26 Report
Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is
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Question 28 Report
A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.
The passage is referring to a
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Question 31 Report
'All day long, all along the line
Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'
For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means
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Question 32 Report
In which of the following London neighborhoods mentioned in Great Expectations is Mr. Jagger's office located?
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Question 34 Report
A play is a tragedy when _______
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Option D is the Aristotle definition of tragedy. When the hero's flaw leads to his downfall.
Question 35 Report
There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
The speaker uses a string of
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Question 36 Report
The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show
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Question 37 Report
'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of
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Question 38 Report
'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?'In this passage, lofty scene refers to
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Question 40 Report
'He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.'
The character described in the passage is the father of
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Question 41 Report
David Diop's poem 'The Vultures', ends in a
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'The pen is mightier than the sword' is an example of
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"The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage, coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that communication (particularly written language), or in some interpretations, administrative power or advocacy of an independent press, is a more effective tool than direct violence.
Question 43 Report
At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.
The setting is best described as
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Question 44 Report
Odewale: I thought you were leaving with your son Aderopo.
Ojuola: It is you i married your highness, not my son.
The exchange from The Gods are not to Blame is an example of
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Question 45 Report
'Serrating down your back and front
Like beak of the sword-fish,
And both your ears, notched
As a bondsman to this house...'
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is
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Question 46 Report
'It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.
In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to
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Question 47 Report
In Soyinka's 'Abiku', the statement, 'The ripest fruit was saddest', is an example of
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Question 48 Report
'And for Mark Antony, think not of him;
For he can do no more of caesar's arm
When caesar's head is off'.
This means that Mark Antony
Question 49 Report
The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as
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Question 50 Report
The mood expressed in 'We Have Come Home' by Lenrie Peters is that of
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