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Question 1 of 15
1. Question
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
“Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!
Life and desire and dreams and death
Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea
The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of
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Question 2 of 15
2. Question
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
‘When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose. I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.”
Isidore Okewho, The last Duty.
The reaction in the passage above is that of
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Question 3 of 15
3. Question
‘CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
CYCLIST: All right. If you are sure it won’t take long
BARBER: i am known for my lightning clippers, even the soldiers know me, and I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back, cycling is not easy when you have abandoned it for some time…..
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area boy.
The literary devices in the dialogue above are
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Question 4 of 15
4. Question
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
“ For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.’
John Updike, Wash
The images set in the lines above are of
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Question 5 of 15
5. Question
‘We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsman likes way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth
The force of the speech above is sustained on
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Question 6 of 15
6. Question
‘Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over”
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
From the passage above, Thomas Grandgrind is
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Question 7 of 15
7. Question
‘Jose Palacious, is oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought had drowned.
He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer in this world.’
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in his Labyrinth.
The master in the passage above is obviously a state of
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Question 8 of 15
8. Question
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
The character ‘boy’ is used alongside ‘the old man’ in the novel to demonstrate
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Question 9 of 15
9. Question
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
The skeleton of the Marlin implies the
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Question 10 of 15
10. Question
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
The old man and the sea epitomizes
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Question 11 of 15
11. Question
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago loses his catch to the sharks because
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Question 12 of 15
12. Question
This question is based on Camara Laye’s The African Child
Layes stay with Mamadou reveals a lot about
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Question 13 of 15
13. Question
This question is based on Camara Laye’s The African Child
The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with
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Question 14 of 15
14. Question
This question is based on Camara Laye’s The African Child
Layes first person narrative technique
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Question 15 of 15
15. Question
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen
Pa Noble became a living legend because
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