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 1671:
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
Options:
A) props
B) parody
C) pyrrhic
D) pathos
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1672:
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.
'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'
In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that
Options:
A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
B) he cannot do good deeds
C) action often conflicts with knowledge
D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1673: S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about
Options:
A) a dream world
B) the world of demon lovers
C) the river Alph
D) a sunless sea
E) sunny spots of greenery.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1674:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse........Their eyes recede from tomorrow.
No sense of mission sustains them.'
These lines from Odia Of Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals express
Options:
A) a longing for the past
B) a lack of grogress
C) the weight of tradition
D) an impatient attitude
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1675:
From the novel; Witnesses to Tears
This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.
In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed by
Options:
A) a premonition of his death
B) Lahab's doubtful morality
C) Hussaina's immaturity
D) his fear of loneliness
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1676: 'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.The quality which this passage displays is
Options:
A) inaccessibility
B) seriousness
C) humour
D) gloom
E) nervousness.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1677: "Of o cam fastem nut one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already. He'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog..." Shakespeare, Othello
From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is
Options:
A) disobedient
B) quarrelsome
C) drunkard
D) scheming
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1678: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.Meka can best be described as
Options:
A) a simple hearted old man
B) an impulsive old man
C) an old religious bigot
D) an egocentric old man
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1679:
This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
OKORO: I'll kill her today.
IDAMA: No, you won't. There, run, Koko, oh,
I say run![He pushes her gently but
firmly towards her room]
The event above happens in
Options:
A) lyara when Okoro discovrs Koko's infidelity
B) Erhuwaren whn Koko suspects and accuses her husband
C) Erhuwaren when Okoro suspects Koko of infidelity
D) Erhuwaren before Koko's return from lyara
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1680:
'They have tied me to a stake:I cannot fly, But bear like i must fight the course'.
Macbeth here is represented as
Options:
A) confident and arrogant
B) pitiable and evil
C) pitiable but courageous
D) pitiable and fearful
E) merry and confident
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The correct answer is C .