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01Ambush by Gbemisola Adeoti. "The fishers turn home at dusk" Sad without a good catch. Infants shudder home the grizzled ones snatch their gut"Free practice
02And may there be no moaning of the bar. But such a tide as moving seem asleep, the flood may bear me far.Free practice

03Choose the option nearest in meaning to the underlined word:Free practice

04Choose the option that best answers the question:Free practice

05Choose the option that best identifies the literary device in the underlined expression:Free practice

06Choose the option that best identifies the literary device in the underlined word:Free practice

07Duke Theseus; "Hippoluta, I woo'd thee with my sword. And won thy love doing thee injuries, but I will wed thee in another key, with pomp, with triumph, and with reveling."Free practice

08Let me speak like yourself and Lay a sentence which, aas a grise or step may help these lovers when remedies are past, the griefs are ended, by seeing the worst which late on nopes depends. (Act I scene III)Free practice

09Let me speak like yourself and Lay a sentence which, as a grise or step may help these lovers when remedies are past, the griefs are ended, by seeing the worst which late on nopes depends. (Act I scene III)Free practice

10Literary principles 31 to 40Free practice

11Question 1 to 5 are based on poems of Black Africa, edited by Wole Soyinka. A selection of African Poetry by K.E Senanu and T. Vincent. New poetry from Africa. Johnson etal. Poems from Ghana edited by Kofi Awoonor. Manscape in the Sierra, New and collected poems by Gbanabom Hallowell. Gbanabam Hallowell's The Dining TableFree practice

12Question 10 and 11 are based on Richard Wright's "Native Son"Free practice

13Question 10 to 12 are based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering HeightsFree practice

14Question 11 is based on Amma Darko's FacelessFree practice

15Question 12 and 13 are based on Fran Ogeche's "Harvest of Corruption"Free practice

16Question 12 is based on Bayo Adewale's Lonely DaysFree practice

17Question 13 to 14 are based on Amma Darko's "Faceless"Free practice

18Question 14 and 15 are based on Dele Charley's "The Blood of a stranger"Free practice

19Question 15 to 20 are based on William Shakespeare's Othello. "Come, Let us go to the castle News, Friends; "Our wars are done" The Turks are drown'd. How does my old acquaintance of this isle? Honey you shall be well desired in Cyprus. I have found great love amongst them O my sweet, I prattle out of fashion and I dote in mine own comforts.Free practice

20Question 16 and 17 are based on Frank Ogbeche's "Harvest of Corruption"Free practice

21Question 16 and 17 are based on Oliver Goldsmith's "She stoops to Conquer"Free practice

22Question 16 to 20 are based on Dele Charley's "The Blood of a Stranger"Free practice

23Question 18 to 20 are based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"Free practice

24Question 19 is based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"Free practice

25Question 21 is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely DaysFree practice

26Question 21 to 25 are based on poems of Black Africa, edited by Wole Soyinka. A selection of African Poetry by K.E Senanu and T. Vincent. New poetry from Africa. Johnson etal. Poems from Ghana edited by Kofi Awoonor. Manscape in the Sierra, New and collected poems by Gbanabom HallowellFree practice

27Question 22 is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely DaysFree practice

28Question 23 is based on Richard Wright's Native SonFree practice

29Question 24 is based on Richard Wright's Native SonFree practice

30Question 25 is based on Amma Darko's FacelessFree practice

31Question 26 is based on Amma Darko's FacelessFree practice

32Question 26 to 30 are based on William Shakespeare's "Othello". I have no great devotion to the deed. And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons. Tis but a man gone forth, ny sword; he dies.Free practice

33Question 27 is based on Amma Darko's FacelessFree practice

34Question 28 is based on Hansberry's A Raisin in the SunFree practice

35Question 30 is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.Free practice

36Question 31 to 35 are based on selected poems from Johnson etal (eds) New Poetry from Vincent T. (eds). A selection from Ghana edited by Kofi Awoonor.Free practice

37Question 36 to 40 are bases on A pageant of longer poems by E.W. Parker Longman group, English Romantic Verse, (ed) by Weight, Penguin books. The Golden Treasury of longer poemsFree practice

38Question 5 to 6 are based on Frank Ogbeche's "Harvest of Corruption"Free practice

39Question 6 and 7 are based on Amma Darko's "Faceless"Free practice

40Question 6 to 10 are based on poems from the penguin book of English verse by John Hayward. The Golden Treasury of longer poems, selected and edited by Ernest. English Romantic Verse edited by Wright Penguin book. A Pageant of longer poems edited by E.W. Parker, Longman.Free practice

41Questions 1 to 2 are based on an Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer"Free practice

42Questions 11 to 12 are based on Bayo Adebowale's "Lonely Days"Free practice

43Questions 21 to 25 are based on William Shakespeare's "Othello". Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief, yon gave me even now?Free practice

44Questions 22 to 26 are based on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. "Ay me, for ought that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love. Never did run smooth…"Free practice

45Questions 26 to 30 are based on the John Hayward. The Golden Treasury of longer poema, selected and edited by Ernest. English Romantic Verse edited by Wright, Penguin books. A Pageant of longer poems edited by E,W Parker, LongmanFree practice

46Questions 27 to 33 are based on selected poems from the list of approved African and Non-African poemsFree practice

47Questions 3 to 4 are based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the sun"Free practice

48Questions 34 to 40 are based on General Literary PrinciplesFree practice

49Questions 7 to 8 are based on Dele Charley's "The Blood of a Stranger"Free practice

50Questions 8 and 9 are based on Bayo Adebowale's "Lonely Days"Free practice

51Questions 9 to 10 are based on Richard Wright's "Native Son"Free practice

52Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"Free practice

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