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 91:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as
Options:
A) comedy
B) tragdy
C) farce
D) burlesque
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 92: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.The experts, of course Disagree The urine test they ordered Said, Negative.'The lines above from Acqah's In the Navel of the Soul depict
Options:
A) contradiction
B) inevitability
C) progress
D) awareness
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 93: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In the theater, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called
Options:
A) aside
B) soliloquy
C) accoustic
D) tone
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 94: "When he was turned over, his eyeballs stared upward in amazement and horror, his mouth was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still".
This passage achieves realism through the use of
Options:
A) details
B) simple words
C) the long sentence
D) the past tense
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 95: The effect of Pip's association with the inmates of Satis house was made to make him
Options:
A) realize that he was an orphan
B) despair of even being a gentle man
C) aspire to improve his education and make himself less common
D) love Biddy more ardently.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 96:
'Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermine my will to create pictures of lasting appeal...'
The speaker in the quotation above is
Options:
A) Happy
B) Excited
C) Tired
D) Frusrated
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 97:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The villains in this poem by Osundara are
Options:
A) the beggars sprawled in gutters
B) those who squander the wealth of the earth
C) the thousands buried alive
D) the people who die in abandon
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 98: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be descried as
Options:
A) dramatic epilogue
B) dramatic monologue
C) role-playing
D) flashback
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 99: We are all diseas'd
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
And we must bleed for it
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to
Options:
A) fun
B) ill-health
C) carelessness
D) sacrifice
E) dieting
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 100:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's
The Trials of Brother Jero.
JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,
your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,
I think ....
CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?
JERO: You must take her home tonight...
Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to
Options:
A) keep his secret secret
B) get the beating out of the way quickly
C) enable jero get into his house
D) keep Chume's loyalty
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The correct answer is A .