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:
This question is on Literary Appreciation
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
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A) derisive
B) ironic
C) melancholic
D) harsh
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 2: This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.''As if men hung here unblown,Their mildewed buds of love like pollenLate caught, damp in a swollen ...The sound device in the stanza above from Kalu Uka''s ''Earth to Earth'' is
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A) onomatopoeia
B) refrain
C) rhyme
D) repetition
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 3:
Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?
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A) Poetry
B) Prose
C) Aroma
D) Drama
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 4: This question is based on General Literary principleMyths differ from legend inn that myths
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A) have more of the historical background and less of the supernatural
B) are less concerned with moral didacticism
C) are more concerned with moral didactism
D) have less of historical background and more of the supernatural
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 5: This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to
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A) draw sympathy for the old man
B) show the old man''s fruitless effort
C) show that thje skeleton itself is useful
D) mock the misadventure of the old man
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 6: The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of
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A) an implacable destructive force
B) an invading but paradoxically welcome force
C) a welcome and benevolent force
D) a sinister and ominous force.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 7: In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi's father was a headmaster, kofi
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A) wore shoe to school
B) started school early
C) went to school when he liked
D) wasn rude to his teachers
E) was very popular with the school children
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 8:
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?
If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?
The literary style used in the passage above is
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A) discursive
B) rhetorical
C) accusative
D) interrogative
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 9: "The madman has entered our house with violence
Defiling our sacred grounds
Claiming the single truth of the universe
Bending down our priest with iron".
Mazzizi Kunnene's progress
The imagery of the line above captures the idea of
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A) coercion
B) truth
C) religiosity
D) persuasion
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 10: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.In the novel, Asejire refers to a
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A) river
B) town
C) farmer
D) cleric
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The correct answer is D .