Literature-in-English

1"The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." The rhyme scheme of the stanza is

2"The lorry groans uphill, its belly full of yams, its horn a hoarse old man who will not rest." The repetition of the h sound in "horn" and "hoarse" is an example of

3"Drip, drip, the roof is counting all the rain, and every drop a coin it cannot spend." "Drip, drip" is an example of

4"The lorry groans uphill, its belly full of yams, its horn a hoarse old man who will not rest." The lorry's horn is compared to

5"My mother's hands are maps of every year: the ridge of yam-fields, rivers of the well, a scar where pepper and the market fell." The lines mainly show the mother's

6"The drum speaks louder than the chief tonight; the village listens, and the chief keeps still." The contrast in the lines suggests that

7"The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." "it borrows the colour from the hills" suggests that the wind

8Read the lines and answer. "The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." The dominant figure of speech in the lines is

9"Drip, drip, the roof is counting all the rain, and every drop a coin it cannot spend." The tone of the lines is best described as

10"O Moon, you lamp the poor man's road for free." Addressing the moon directly is called