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This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.

The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to

A
draw sympathy for the old man
B
show the old man''s fruitless effort
C
show that thje skeleton itself is useful
D
mock the misadventure of the old man
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

A
beware of the animals in the jungle
B
beware of the effects of thunder
C
condemn the destructive qualities of elephants
D
be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing

Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap

The extract above from Wole Soyinka's

Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between

A
madam and receiver
B
tenant and telephone
C
landlady and tenant
D
receiver and thunderclap
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

A
alliteration
B
onomatopeia
C
oxymoron
D
simile
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

David Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' symbolically describes the meeting between

A
a black king and a white man
B
Stanley and Mutesa
C
the West and Africa
D
Europe and a black king
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The pervasive mood of the speaker in Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto' is that of

A
elation and joy
B
terror and insecurity
C
darkness and threat
D
celebration and freedom
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

A
a sonnet
B
an irregular verse
C
an address
D
a free verse
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

A
disease, illness and death
B
aristocracy, affluence and wealth
C
poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
D
greed aristocracy and the ambitious
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'... It is not yet dawn

And we wake from one nightmara

To another.'

In these lines from Ojaide's The Owl Wake Us', the mood is that of a

A
terrifying dream
B
seemingly endless night
C
vicious cycle of oppression
D
persona's experience
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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is that of

A
anger
B
love
C
sadness
D
scorn
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