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Aloho perceives her pregnancy as a form of
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The play can be referred to as
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According to Ochuole, government job is
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good for hardworking youths
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an avenue to personalize public fund
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Aloch is warned about associating with Ochuole be-cause the latter is
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born-again Question 6 to 10 are based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
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She is abused, stol'n from me and corrupted By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks; . The excerpt above refers to
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lago's distrust of Emilia
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Othello's suspicion [PAGE 56]
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Cassio's disaffection for lago
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The play is first staged at
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`All's One-Good faith, how foolish are our minds! If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me. In one of those same sheets.' The plea in the excerpt above is made by
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„Let him do his spite; My services which I have done the signiory Shall out-tongue his complaints.'Tis yet to know Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,' The speaker in the excerpt above is
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„O heaven; How got she out? O treason of the blood Father, from hence trust not your daughter‟s minds By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused? The speaker of the excerpt above is
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Roderigo Question 11 to 13 are based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
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Sodom and Gomorrah used in the novel is an example of [PAGE 57]
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The novel focuses on
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Fofo chooses to spend the night in front of the provision store because
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she does not want to risk losing her job
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she has nowhere to go 1 Question 14 to 16 are based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
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Labankada signifies
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The women of kufi are powerful
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The windows in the land are joined by the loss of
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dignity and status Question 17 to 20 are based on Richard Wright's Native Son
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'Light flooded the room and revealed a black boy standing in a narrow space between two' The style of the lines above is
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Bigger kills Mary due to
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Weekly, Bigger is to be paid
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Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are
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servants in the white family
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given some respect Question 21 to 30 are based on Selected Poems from Johnson, Ret al(eds): New poetry from Vincent, T.(eds): A selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J African Verse. Morris'
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The Proud King is
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Mystic rhythm in the third line of the first stanza of Okara's Piano and Drums
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carries a definite message
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are for pleasurable dancing [PAGE 58]
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The line above in Adeoti's Ambush is an example of
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The mood of the person in Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is that
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Having a glass of blessings standing by,' The line above from Herbert's The Pulley is an example of
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Peter's the Panic of Growing Older can be referred to as
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One vivid device in Blake‟s The School Boy is
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„… and my boots have suddenly become too reluctant to walk me.‟ The persona in the above excerpt in Hallowell's The Dining Table is
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The tone of Diopo‟s Vanity is one of
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Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer presents a picture of the
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olden days Question 31 to 40 are based on General Literacy Principles
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Totality of the effects produced on a reader of a literary work is
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An art form in which singers and musicians performs dramatic work combining text and music is
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In literature, local colour is
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only American 34.A clue to an event that will happen later in a work of art is
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„I am on the world's extreme corner.' Kofi Awoonor: Song of Sorrow. The speaker in the lines move is
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Then I sat myself quiet... for five And forty turbulent years I waited, sapped, famished, For love to wake from her sickly slumber; The figure of speech in the last line above is
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We have rain but hate to plant We have the heat and the glory of the rainbow But we kill our own suns with hurtful glee The poet's feeling call be described as that of
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When I remember by gone days I think how evening follow morning So many I loved were not yet dead, So may I love not yet born The period of life the poet has arrived at is
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„Behold her, single in the field You solitary Highland Lass‟ Reaping and singing by herself O listen! for the value profound Is overflowing with the sound.‟ Words worth: The Solitary Reaper The lines above constitute
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