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 1501:
These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!
The statement above refers to
Options:
A) Romeo
B) Tybalt
C) Benvolio
D) Juliet
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1502:
This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
In Robert Frost's 'Wild Grapes', the girl's brother throws down grapes in the manner he does to
Options:
A) make his sister have her fill
B) allow himself time-in-between to eat
C) make his sister desire to climb the tree
D) allow hinself to have some fun
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1503:
"...Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity"
The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____
Options:
A) apostrophe
B) personification
C) metaphor
D) simile
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1504: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies
Options:
A) unrequired love
B) mutual love
C) impossible love
D) erotic love
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1505:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
Allegory is used to describe a work in which
Options:
A) humans are transposed into animals
B) both animals and humans swap roles
C) animals are given human characters
D) abstract ideas are personified
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1506:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'
John Updike, Wash
The images set in the lines above are of
Options:
A) the days of Noah
B) rain and flood in June
C) discomfort and likely destruction
D) an animal, insects and fun
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1507: 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 .
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Question 1508:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'what time night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise'.
J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'
Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?
Options:
A) Alliteration
B) Assonance
C) Hyperbole
D) Onomatopoeia
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1509:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe figure of speech involved in the lines above is
Options:
A) epigram
B) pun
C) simile
D) personification
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1510: This question is based on Selec ted Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, 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.&lsquo ...where guerillas walk the land while crocodiles surf. &rsquo The lines above in Hallowelps The Dining Table signify _______?
Options:
A) danger
B) calmness
C) pity
D) saddness
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The correct answer is A .