Correct Answer: A. indignation

Correct Answer: D. Three quatrains

Explanation

The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. An important variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet (introduced by the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser), which links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee. In either form, the 'turn' comes with the final couplet, which may sometimes achieve the neatness of an epigram.

Correct Answer: D. Make the best out of this

Explanation

The poet raises the serious issues of his dilemma and confusion especially on the threshold of decision-making. Accordingly he deploys appropriate diction to make his points. To this end he uses epithets that connote the uncertainty of things and a network of opposites that underscore his indecision.

For instance he finds himself helpless where 'the past and the future' are both 'dim' and "the hopes and inspirations they raise are equally 'nebulous'. He is also confounded at that point where time ceaselessly moves 'forwards anc backwards'. There he lies unable to choose between casting away the old and embracing the new. With a skillful use of an effective network of contrasting words, he shows how he finds himself unable to take sides as he watches "truth and untruth" locked in an 'endless and bloody combat.'

By means of the same language technique he portrays his dilemma, confusion and indecision at the crossroads of the "need for good" and the need for 'doing good'. There again he lies unable to take any decision. It is also with the use of the right diction that the poet reveals how his dilemma, confusion and indecision seemingly peak, hallucinating as he feels the 'buoyant waves'; tending to 'stagger' even though he has "not been drinking" anc lying "in open-souled amazement". Helplessly watching the forces of evil descending and causing their havoc. Throughout the poem, the choice of diction which begins with the title-The Fence'-is consistent with the poet's passive disposition as he continues to sit on the fence in masters of the utmost importance.

Correct Answer: C. Desdemona's attraction to Othello

Correct Answer: D. all the actors

Correct Answer: D. Tragic flow

Correct Answer: A. an allegory

Explanation

Allegory is a narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. Allegory generally operates on two levels as a literary device. The overt or surface narrative/description is meant to have enough literary elements to be a standalone work that is interesting and/or entertaining by itself. However, the emphasis of allegory is typically placed on the abstract ideals represented or symbolized by the work's literary elements. In other words, the meaning behind the surface narrative has even greater value as a literary work. Though many allegories are intended to be didactic in providing a moral, ethical, or religious lesson, not all allegories set out to achieve this goal.

Explanation

Eugene's character is baffling. Some of the people who have come into contact with him are hard put to affirm whether he is a good person or a bad man. Amaka, Eugene's niece, from what she has come to know about her uncle, is unwilling to say he is a had man, but must justify to herself that he truly is not a bad person, in the face of evidence of her uncle's cruelty to his immediate family; such as Jaja's finger. Aunty Ifeoma makes only a passing reference to it, but it is not discussed. Yet its effect on Amaka and the other children is strong and exposes Eugene to his niece and nephews as neither loving nor earing.

Amaka is scandalized by Eugene's hold over her cousins. She expresses her anger through a brutal game of teasing :Kambili about her deficiencies in domestic chores, in which her mother intervenes, urging Amaka to accommodate Kambili's very little exposure to the very ordinary things that she (Amaka) has grown used to and taken for granted: wearing shorts or lipstick, romance, music, etc.

Amaka can stretch her imagination to envision not ony the boredom imposed on her cousins but also the true nature of the harsh punishments they bear. They have no choice in anything they do and Amaka is very angry for her cousins.

Aware of Eugene's attitude towards his own father, whom she adores, Amaka cannot regard her under in a positive light. She simply cannot approve Eugene's relationship with Papa-Nnukwu.

Yet Eugene, in his own way, expresses love to all. On his visits home, he gives many people gifts, not to mention his endowment to the church. In a sense, too, he is protective of his family and provides for his home.

He cannot be a had man, really? Amaka wonders how such a generous and loving person can at the same time be cruel.

When Papa-Nnukwu dies, there arises a grave moment for the family at Nsukka. Taking the situation of the shortage of almost everything and Aunty Ifeoma's financial state together, times are hard. Then comes Eugene, who says he has sent the necessary things for his father's funeral to his sister, even though he himself will not attend nor have anything further to do with the burial of the old man.

For Amaka, the question of how to label her uncle in these circumstances becomes important and urgently needs an answer. She is impressed by the man's latest generosity. Despite her inclination to condemn the man who treats his family harshly, she relents in her condemnation. She sees Eugene's recent behaviour as positively mitigating, and so Eugene, she confesses, is not a bad man, really.

Correct Answer: A. Manaan to lawyer B