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 1771: One of the differences between tragedy and comedy is
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A) there is humour in comedy but not in tragedy
B) there id suffering in tragedy but not in comedy
C) there is feasting in comedy but not in tragedy
D) there is a happy ending in comedy but not in tragedy
E) none of the above
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1772:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?
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A) By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
B) By introducing him to hermother
C) By giving him her portrait with an inscription
D) By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1773: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust...
Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters
The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is
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A) olfactory
B) visual
C) tactile
D) auditory
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1774:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is
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A) a sonnet
B) an irregular verse
C) an address
D) a free verse
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1775:
The writer of a poem is called__________?
Options:
A) Author
B) Poet
C) Writer
D) Narrator
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1776:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.
Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'
The character in the poem above is obviously a
Options:
A) veteran
B) prisoner
C) mercenary
D) refugee
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1777:
This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The story in the book is told from the point of view of
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A) Nwabunor
B) Obanua
C) a first person narrator
D) a third person narrator
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1778: According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is
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A) poor
B) religious
C) hopeful
D) frustrated
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1779: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
The above poem essentially deals with the theme of
Options:
A) old age
B) childhood innocence
C) beauty of the rainbow
D) fatherhood
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1780:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on
Options:
A) showing casual connection of incidents
B) the vivid presentation of incidents
C) the accurate presentation of incidents
D) narrating the truth of incidents
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The correct answer is A .