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 1201:
'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'
The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______
Options:
A) allusion
B) an ode
C) metaphor
D) apostrophe
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1202:
In The Marriage of Anansewa, to which character
Do the following praise-names refer?
'Oh Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin
Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin
Rooted in the shrine of deity
Countless branches in which
Benighted wandering birds
Are welcome to shelter'
Options:
A) Togbe Klu IV
B) Chief of the Mines
C) Chief-Who-Is-Chief
D) Chief of Sapa
E) property Man.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1203: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."We would be believing we dreamt it"The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is
Options:
A) apostrophe
B) assonance
C) antithesis
D) alliteration
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1204:
'He glanced at his bitten nails, and with his chin resting on his knees, said, 'well, i ask them to let me go below to visit my pa in the cell. they feel sorry for me, and say its okay. So i go down to see him, this man what made my ma's life a misery like hell, and who never had a word for me, and did nothing but give me the belt'.
From what he says, the kid in this passage
Options:
A) loves his father
B) dislikes his father
C) disowns his father
D) feels sorry for his father
E) is proud of his father.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1205: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is
Options:
A) personification
B) metaphor
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1206:
'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.
'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'
'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is
Options:
A) love
B) sympathetic understanding
C) contempt
D) respect
E) difference.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1207: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is
Options:
A) round character
B) stock character
C) static character
D) flat character
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1208:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
Gabriel Okara presents the Black in relation to the child-Front in his poem 'The Fisherman's invocation as a source of
Options:
A) inspiration
B) destruction
C) anxiety
D) uncertainty
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1209: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the novel explores the theme of
Options:
A) child quest of an African woman
B) exploitation of the African woman
C) sex discrimination in Ghana
D) women liberation in Nigeria
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1210:
A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?
Options:
A) allegory
B) assonance
C) metre
D) onomatopoeia
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The correct answer is C .