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 1391:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used
Options:
A) metaphorically
B) literally
C) imaginatively
D) figuratively
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1392: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as
Options:
A) metanoia
B) metaphysical
C) metalanguage
D) metalepsis
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1393:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
To stop himself from cutting off the sound in anger the man turned and just watched the fan, only just then another feeble, useless movement would happen and blades would be drawn through another arc. Only a long hour later did the noise finally stop - 4:30p.m
A.K Amah. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
In this passage, the writer
Options:
A) creates a mood of suspense
B) enhances an oppressive atmosphere
C) describes the man's anger
D) captures the man's habitual impatience
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1394:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is ________?
Options:
A) a celebration of life
B) an appreciation of nature
C) a demystication of death
D) a celebration of the final passage
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1395:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his
Options:
A) Major Petkoff
B) Captain Bluntschli
C) Catherine
D) Raina
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1396: This question is based on Literary.Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in BiafraThe speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of
Options:
A) admiration
B) condemnation
C) spite
D) respect
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1397:
'All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant's coming
Then did the branches talk in agony'.
There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of
Options:
A) oxymoron
B) metonymy
C) alliteration
D) simile
E) personification.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1398: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The party seeks power for
Options:
A) its own sake
B) its members
C) people's sake
D) the nation
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1399: Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando
Options:
A) defeacted charles in wrestling contest
B) was in love with Rosalind
C) was preferred by the people to himself
D) was more educated than himself
E) ran away from home
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1400: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
The major reason for Juliet's grief is
Options:
A) the death of her cousin
B) her reluctant marriage to the County
C) the banishment of her lover
D) her imminent death
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The correct answer is C .