Literature

A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is?

This question is based on General Literary Principles. A. flashback B. foreshadowing C. interlude D. anti-climax Correct Answer: Option A…

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The lines below suggests that women are?

This question is based on Literary Appreciation. "Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent I saw your jealous eye…

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Action without speech in a play is?

This question is based on General Literary Principles. A. epilogue B. mime C. soliloquy D. aside Correct Answer: Option B…

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The figure of speech in which the writer means the exact opposite of what he intends to say is?

This question is based on General Literary Principles. A. paradox B. metaphor C. satire D. irony Correct Answer: Option D…

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A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is?

This question is based on General Literary Principles. A. an irony B. a fable C. a masque D. a satire…

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A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as?

This question is based on General Literary Principles. A. assonance B. repetition C. alliteration D. rhyme Correct Answer: Option B…

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A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and?

This question is based on General Literary Principles. A. custom B. turth C. urgency D. origin Correct Answer: Option A…

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“Time winged chariot” The line from Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress depicts?

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):…

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The lines below from Give Me The Minstrel’s Seat is an example of?

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):…

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The device employed in the line below from Kunene’s The Heritage of Liberation is an example of?

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):…

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