Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.
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Question 1:
She said you just had to make an emotional commitment in marriage. It was like skiing, you could not see in advance what would happen but you had to let go. Maybe that was why I failed, because I didn't know what I had to let go of. For me it hadn't been like skiing, it was more like jumping off a cliff. That was the feeling I had all the time I was married, in the air, going down, waiting for the smash at the bottom.
The passage indicates that the author's experience in marriage was
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A) exhilarating like skiing
B) steeped in boredom and monotony
C) full of fear of the unknown
D) fraught with grief and despair
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 2:
These questions are based on general Literary principles
The large space above the proscenium in a theater from which the scene are controlled is called
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A) aside
B) achronism
C) flies
D) setting
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 3: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with
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A) disdain
B) indifference
C) honour
D) kid gloves
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 4:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'.
The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is
Options:
A) an ode
B) allusion
C) apostrophe
D) dramatic
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 5: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as
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A) assonance
B) repetition
C) alliteration
D) rhyme
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 6: This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
The simple news nature told
With tender majesty Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me
To whom does her in line 5 refers to?
Options:
A) God
B) Letter
C) World
D) Nature
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 7:
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.
'Th old man was dreaming about the lions suggests that he is
Options:
A) going to hunt lions
B) still determined and hopefu
C) afraid of future struggle
D) about to enter new jungles
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 8: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to
Options:
A) allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
B) accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
C) surrender himself to the whiteman
D) surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 9:
'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of
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A) taste
B) touch
C) sight
D) smell
E) hearing
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 10:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase
Options:
A) military glory and romantic love
B) heroism and marriage
C) innocent women and brave men
D) realism and romance
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The correct answer is A .