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    If you are conversant with examination, especially external examinations, like WAEC (West African Examination Council), NECO ( National Examination Council) JAMB or any other external examination body within your vicinity then you should surely be conversant with their questions and how to answer them.     Today, I am focusing more on Literature and terms commonly used in literature examination ( external examination). If you have any questions or comments, please provide them in the comment section. The following terms are: 1. Comment: This literally means to write a note of observation or a note that briefly explains the concept, either to criticise or commend. You are expected to express your personal opinions when answering a question that says comment. For example, Comment on Robert Frost's poem Birches. 2. Compare and contrast: Here, you are expected to write down the similarities and differences of the concept. Figures of speech, symbolism...

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world older than the Flow of human veins My soul has grown deep like the rivers I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down the New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers My soul has grown deep like rivers.   This poem was written by James Langston Hughes, an African-American poet who was born February 1, 1902 and died May 22, 1967. Poem Plot The river in the poem symbolizes the linkage of human life from time in memorial to the present day. He mentions the rivers Euphrates and Mississippi which represents the history of mankind from biblical times to the period of the American Civil War. The poet also claims to have bathed in Euphrates when dawns were ...

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world older than the Flow of human veins My soul has grown deep like the rivers I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down the New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers My soul has grown deep like rivers.   This poem was written by James Langston Hughes, an African-American poet who was born February 1, 1902 and died May 22, 1967. Poem Plot The river in the poem symbolizes the linkage of human life from time in memorial to the present day. He mentions the rivers Euphrates and Mississippi which represents the history of mankind from biblical times to the period of the American Civil War. The poet also claims to have bathed in Euphrates when dawns were ...

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