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 1411:
This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being
Options:
A) paradoxical
B) anttithetical
C) illogical
D) tautological
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1412:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The play is concerned principally with
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A) presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
B) changing the traditional view about comedy in England
C) the construction and handling of situations and incidents
D) the presentation of a society without morals
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1413:
_____________refers to time and place of a drama?
Options:
A) place
B) scene
C) setting
D) act
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1414:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'
Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)
The literary term used for this kind of writing is
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A) biography
B) autograph
C) orthography
D) autobiography
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1415:
A short poem that expresses an idea in a clever way is called _____
Options:
A) An Epigram
B) A Limerick
C) An Ode
D) A Lyric
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1416: These questions are based on general Literary principlesTravellogue is a work of art written
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A) by a famous playwrite
B) by an unpopular novelist
C) on a journey
D) before the death of the author
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1417: Kongi's Harvest
Options:
A) Kongi is a democratic ruler
B) Kongi is a socialist
C) Kongi is a dictator
D) Kongi is a respecter of tradition
E) none of the above
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1418:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'You just wait, I'll tell you more
But let me first sell my tomatoes'.
These two lines from Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka'
Reveal the poet's true state of
Options:
A) delight
B) reality
C) fear
D) dream
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1419: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of
Options:
A) zeugma
B) oxymoron
C) antithesis
D) conceit
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1420: In a play denouement is the
Options:
A) entry of the central character
B) development of the central conflict
C) introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
D) climatic point in the development of the plot
E) the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
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The correct answer is E .