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 1061:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.
I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''
These words concern
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A) Obika and his mother
B) Obika and Okuata
C) Akueke and her husband
D) all the young men in the village
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1062: Earth has not anything to; show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning.
It is suggested in these lines that
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A) The beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city.
B) The beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning.
C) The beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated.
D) There is no beauty on earth.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1063:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most them.I have been in prison more hours than i have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life,the speaker's tone is
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A) regretful
B) subdued
C) repentant
D) boastful
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1064:
Use the following excerpt to answer the question.
"I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And make me,from my sweet dreams be lost,
by sucking blood from my poor head...
Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"
The lines are an example of a________?
Options:
A) limerick
B) lampoon
C) light verse
D) light opera
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1065: The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres
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A) non-fiction
B) prose fiction
C) poetry
D) drama
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1066:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'
The main significance of the fire in the novel is to
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A) provide warmth
B) roast meat
C) provide warning
D) provide signal
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1067:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for
Options:
A) an imported alcoholicdrink
B) a brand of elitist cigrette
C) a newly commissioned road network
D) Gold Coast Transport Corporation
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1068: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of
Options:
A) Peace
B) Plenty
C) Love
D) Truth
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1069: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as
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A) characterization
B) allegory
C) metaphor
D) paralellism
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1070:
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.
'I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me'.
From Robert Frosts ' Wild Grapes' is
Options:
A) the adventures of some wild children in the forest
B) the dramatic suspension of a child on a tree
C) the successful climbing of an adventurous boy
D) reminiscence of man's transcendentalism
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The correct answer is B .