J Literature in English 15

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds):
New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu,
K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T
et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds):
Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and
Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example
of'As if men hung here unbloom,
Their mildewed buds of love like pollen
Late caught, damp in a swollen...'
The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.
Sweet smile in time of snari gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this
world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of
strife.The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In Nnaife's house, life
became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that

Read the extract below and this answer question.The pattering rain was
kicking up little explosions of
Dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream
As it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.
The underline expression in line 3 is

A speech or writing used to praise a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In the novel, it is
necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersPaternal aunt to Aaron and
Maanan is

Plays are basically meant to be

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.The relationships of
Nnaife family are

These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best
which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent,
the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersA brother to Aaron and
Maanan is

In literary devices, pun deals with

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds):
New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu,
K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T
et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds):
Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and
Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example
ofThe literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like
blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from
Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________
'Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare:
Twelfth Night
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on it',
There's something in me that
Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but
mocks reproof.'
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry
African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A
Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English:
Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African
verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
The figure of speech in the line below from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is 'We would
be believing we dreamt it'

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry
African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A
Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English:
Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African
verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
The theme of Cope's sonnet V11 is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.The old man
slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lapThe rhyme a scheme of the poem
above is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.A poet's use of regular rhythm is
known as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.A cursing rogue with a
merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crurch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.'Big Brothers Is
Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four
ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.
The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop
owned by

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersWhere does the play take
place?

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.O! Ceremony,show me but thy
worth What is thy soul of adorationThe figure of speech in the lines above is

The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary genre which directly imitates
human action is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In
Romeo and Juliet, use the excerpt below to answer question 14 and 15.'.... So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an important child that hath them.
New robes and may not wear.
The literary device used in the excerpt is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the
characters and events are used as symbols is known as

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second
Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet,
the major role of Mercutio is to

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Why did Nnaife
blame Nnu Ego for all his problems

In drama, the use of gestures to communicate is known as

Travelogue is a work of art written

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnaife and Nnu Ego
Second Child but the first to live is

A significant of a whole through its significant part is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Romeo is evicted
to__________because he__________

The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.__________decides
that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.What can you infer
about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds):
New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu,
K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T
et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds):
Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and
Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofIn
Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the persona addresses the
dead athlete using

Read the extract below and answer this question.
But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved,
suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and
the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the above extract is

Ballad is meant to be

This question is based on General literacy principlesThe repetition of single words or
phrases at the beginning of lines is

Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.The imagery created in
the excerpt below is achieved through
'........They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests.......'
_ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

This question is based on General Literary Principles.In literary work, verbal irony refers to
a

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that