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 1791: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is
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A) epilogue
B) mime
C) soliloquy
D) aside
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1792: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is
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A) jealous of rich and influential people
B) overwhelmed by the power of money
C) contemptuous of the poor
D) indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1793:
These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'
The play is mostly written in
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A) free verse
B) metres
C) foot
D) blank verse
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1794:
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.
The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza
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A) an octave
B) a quatrain
C) a couplet
D) a sestet
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1795:
'Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed'
The mood registered in these lines is
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A) excitement
B) depression
C) gaiety
D) happiness
E) persimism
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1796: In literature, a flat character can be described as one who
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A) is undeveloped
B) undergoes changes
C) dies abruptly
D) achieves greatness
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1797:
A poem is said to be good if it________
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A) has elevated style
B) has rhyme and reason
C) is difficult to understand
D) has a regular rhythm
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1798: In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is
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A) gently consigned to obscurity in the end
B) justly rewarded in the end.
C) unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
D) given national honours in the end
E) allowed a graceful retirement in old age.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1799:
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is
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A) Ogeyi
B) Alice
C) Ayo
D) Mrs Obi
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1800:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her
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A) indiscretion
B) beauty
C) wit
D) brawn
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The correct answer is A .