OAU Literature-In-English 2011/2012 Past Questions

The thematic pre-occupation of de graft's Sons and Daughters can be summarized as.

Lawyer Bonu in de Graft's Sons and Daughters can be described as a:

De Graft's Sons and Daughters in structured into:

The central conflict in de Graft's Sons and Daughters is primarily:

'He already had five wives and was soon going to break the legs of the antelope for the sixth time'. The expression 'break the legs of the antelope' means to:

The medal in Oyono's The Old man and the Medal is a compensation to Make for the loss of his two sons and his:

Kelara in Oyono's The Old man and the Medal is:

In Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, Ignatius Obebe is a:

The medal in Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal is a symbol of:

'Dancing through blooming thorns' in Gbemisola Adeoti's 'Naked Soles' connotes:

in Gbemisola Adeoti's 'Naked Soles', the expression 'red milk of grief' refers to:

In Masizi Kunene's 'A Heritage of Liberation', 'This season' refers to the period of:

'Eagle in Kunene's 'A Heritage of Liberation' is a symbol of:

The tone in Gbemisola Adeoti's 'Naked Soles' is that of

The attitude of the poet-persona toward bats in D.H. Lawrence's 'Bats' is that of:

In China, according to D.H. Lawrence, bats are symbols of:

In Wendy Cope's Sonnet Vil, poetry is regarded as a God-given weapon to:

The greatest challenge to the poet-persona in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' is:

The tone of the speaker in the excerpt above (Q. 20) is that of

'But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way around every difficulty. As for the horses, they know every inch of the field and in fact understood the business of mowing and raking'. The dominant literary device in the excerpt above is

'The dairy, maids and men had flocked down from their cottages and out of the dairy-house with the arrival of the cows from the meads; the maids walking in patterns, not on account of weather, but to keep their shoes above the mulch of the barton'

'O mother, my mother! ... How could I be expected to know? I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me?' The speech above achieves its literary effect through the use of:

'The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him, especially as they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the rebellion. All the same, there were days when they felt that they would sooner have had less figures and more food'. The tone of the passage above is quite.

'We are tired of waiting for another war. Our trees their leaves have shed. The winter has come and gone. Spring flowers have blossomed and withered'. In line 2 of the poem above, the poet uses:

'I come and go a pilgrim grubbily unkempt stubbornly cheerful defiantly whistling hope and grubbing for crumbs of success out of all near-defeats'. The pet personal in the poem above is: