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 1651: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is
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A) ambiguity
B) characterization
C) suspense
D) plot
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1652:
A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the
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A) Chorus
B) Clown
C) Playwright
D) Cast
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1653:
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
Adah's sojourn in London reveals that
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A) marriage is an equal partnership between spouses
B) her marriege improves
C) Francis is a hardworking man
D) the plight of the black woman does not change
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1654:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by
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A) repetition
B) double rhymes
C) assonance
D) end rhymes
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1655: THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to
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A) serve as a constract to Romeo's
B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
C) annoy Tybalt
D) persuade Romeo to forget Rosaline.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1656:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):
Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.
LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?
WILLY: No, nothing happened.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Linda's words above express a feeling of
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A) darkness and horror
B) fear and sadness
C) fear and anxiety
D) suspicion and shock
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1657: The feeding in the poem 'Nightfall in soweto' is one of
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A) gratitude
B) love
C) hate
D) joy
E) safety
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1658: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the novel explores the theme of
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A) child quest of an African woman
B) exploitation of the African woman
C) sex discrimination in Ghana
D) women liberation in Nigeria
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1659:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.
The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the
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A) lamentation of the death of a friend
B) alienation of Africans
C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1660: 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 Odia Ofeimuun's We must Learn Again to Fly, the use of 'we' gives the poem a
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A) universal appeal
B) personifying effect
C) symbolic undertone
D) dramatic sensation
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The correct answer is A .