BUK Literature in English 2017/2018 Past Questions

O! Ceremony, show me but they worth
What is thy soul of aspiration
The figure of speech used in the lines above is

‘What eyes will watch our large Mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?
Birago Diop:Vanity
The time of the lines above is one of

‘The old man slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree fine dry of sal
And his hands were dry upon his lapʼ
The rhyme scheme of the poem above is

Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed.....
The lines above show that the speaker

......How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise International schools? And koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him....
The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

‘Hide me now, when night children haunt the earthʼ, (Wole Soyinka: Night)
Night Children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

‘Serrated shadows, through darkness leavers
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
Sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves (Woke Soyinka: Night)
The dominant mood in the lines above is one of

‘The drums overwhelms the guns...ʼ(J.P Clark: Casualties)
The poet in the excerpt above uses

‘..... They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests....ʼ (J.P Clarke: Casualties)
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

‘I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly.ʼ (A.L. Tennyson: Ulysses)
The lines above inform the leader that the poet