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The writer’s tone from the illustration below is _______?

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The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an “old” family fallen on evil days. A. melancholic...

If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography; we mean that it is?

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Kossoh Town Boy is a novel by Robert Wellesley Cole. This is the boyhood story of an African surgeon. The first African to be elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a key figure in the independence movement of his country, he looks back on...

In The Flight to Australia’; the following line occurs: ‘Tier upon tier it towered; the terrible Apennines’. The figure of speech used in this line is known as?

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A. alliteration B. litotes C. exaggeration D. parody Correct Answer: Option A – alliteration

Literature is studied as a subject at school because?

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A. it exposes students to the realities of life B. it provides entertainment C. it merely gives additional work to students D. it teaches the use of words E. it provides a means to kill time Correct Answer: Option A – it exposes students to the realities of...