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 1301: When the speech is written so as to be understood in one way by a certain character, while the audience or another character understands it to have some secret and special meaning, the literary device used in this context is called
Options:
A) dramatic irony
B) paradox
C) allusion
D) hyperbole.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1302: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption"Trust me. My duty is to convince her to play ball with him and then the usual commission keeps rolling in, shee you get?..."The speaker in the excerpt above is
Options:
A) Aloho
B) Ogeyi
C) Odili
D) Ochuole
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1303:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as
Options:
A) an ode
B) a ballad
C) an elegy
D) a pastoral
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1304:
"...If someone threw you a rope when you were
Drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take this because if you
Don't take it, you will die- you would, wouldn't you? I
Mean?"Based on the novel "Piggy's",the "rope" and the doctor's prescription refers to the
Options:
A) pig
B) beast
C) conch
D) smoke signal
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1305:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Duke:
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should
Options:
A) make trouble to see Olivia
B) jump the fence to see Olivia
C) shout be seen and heard by Olivia
D) fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1306:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
One rhyme scheme typical of the English sonnet is
Options:
A) abab cdcd cdedce
B) abba abba cde cde
C) abba abba cde dce
D) abab cdcd efef gg
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1307:
In Herbert's "The Pulley", God's supremacy is exemplified through______
Options:
A) His withholding of the gift of rest
B) the insatiable nature of man's needs
C) His unending love for mankind
D) His blessings of man with many gifts
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1308:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare
The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's
'The Dry Season' thematically suggests
Options:
A) destruction
B) confusion
C) desolation
D) death
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1309:
The withdrawal of rest from man according to George Herbert in 'The Pulley' is particularly because_____
Options:
A) man by nature has the tendencies to be lazy
B) of the need for human survival
C) God wants man to feel less of himself
D) of the space for God's worship
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1310:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl's rump.''
The 'misfortune' referred to in this extract was the
Options:
A) misunderstanding between Akueke and her husand
B) outrage which Oduche committed against the sacred python
C) sending away of Ezeulu's sons to worship the whiteman's God
D) ominous vist of Ezeulu's in-laws to his compound
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The correct answer is B .