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 991: This question is based on General Literary Principles
An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is
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A) synaesthesia
B) synecdoche
C) metonymy
D) allegory
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 992: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is
Options:
A) assonance
B) dissonance
C) slapstick
D) alliteration
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 993:
A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?
Options:
A) Drama
B) comedy
C) Prose
D) Poetry
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 994: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.In the play, Mercutio can be described as
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A) fraudulent
B) gentle
C) kind-hearted
D) quarellsome
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 995: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases......
Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
The poem above can best be described as
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A) epic
B) heroic
C) praise
D) quatrain
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 996: Which of the following adjectives best describes the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart?
Options:
A) Gentle
B) Quick tempered
C) Considerate
D) Meek
E) Wicked
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 997:
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): 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
The poet-persona in Serenade is
Options:
A) boastful
B) arrogant
C) persuasive
D) deceptive
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 998:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza
Options:
A) an octave
B) a quatrain
C) a couplet
D) a sestet
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 999:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.
Ezeulu sent his son, Oduche, to join the Christians because
Options:
A) of his great love for the whiteman
B) he had come to distrust the power of Ulu
C) he did not want Oduche to succeed him as chief priest
D) he wanted a representative in the group in case they became powerful
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1000:
These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'
In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is
Options:
A) oxymoron
B) hyperbole
C) alliteration
D) personification
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The correct answer is C .