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 121: 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 122:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the
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A) childhood fun
B) only set in a crown of thorns
C) gory details
D) wicked sappor
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 123:
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.
Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a
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A) lamentation over a dead friend
B) lamentation over the passing of life
C) reflection on the passing of life
D) reflection on nature
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 124: The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem,'Night', can be accurately described as
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A) calm
B) agitated
C) cheerful
D) aggressive
E) uneasy.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 125:
These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and
Then deflating the skin under his chin'.
The subject of description in the line above is
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A) the high commissioner
B) the white chief
C) M.Fuuconi
D) M. Pipiniakis
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 126:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '
The lines above in the play are delivered by
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A) Kate
B) Tony
C) Marlow
D) Constance
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 127:
From the novel; Lonely Days
The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS
Yaremi's only son is______?
Options:
A) Alani
B) Wande
C) Olode
D) Deyo
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 128:
'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to
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A) a ployman and the herd
B) the rich people of the village
C) the congregation of the church
D) the politicians
E) all those buried in the graveyard
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 129:
Use excerpt below to answer questions
"Now, by yond marble
heaven,
In the due reverence of a sacred vow
I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)
The prevailing activity in the extract is
Options:
A) the vow of revenge and pledge of loyalty by Iago to Othello
B) evident of the conspiracy between Iago and Othello
C) the vow by Iago to revenge upon Othello
D) reflective of Othello's rage
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 130: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its
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A) dramatic irony
B) botanical allusion
C) olfactory image
D) extended metaphor
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The correct answer is C .