Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a
Options:'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall
Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from
My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from
My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-BugThe most dominant figure of speech in the excerpts above is
Options:This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?
Options:This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
Othello kills himself with a
Options:What is the narrator of a poem called?
Options:'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
Options:This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is
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