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 1841:
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 1842:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra Davis telling her this. Not just a wife, not just a mother - as Nessa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childhood were and were expected to be; cooks and floor scrubbers, fanatical table polishers and chairback starchers, nest builders.
Georgina Hammick, 'Habits'
In the passage above, it can be inferred that Otto's wife
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A) scrubbed floors and polished tables like the other women
B) was a potter and was thereforespared other domestic jobs
C) was a potter like Nessa's mother
D) was a potter in addition to being a wife andmother
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1843: 'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of
Options:
A) analogies
B) rhetorical questions
C) apostrophes
D) exaggerations
E) similes.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1844: Soyinka's main concern in The Trials of Brother Jero is to
Options:
A) expose the corrupt politicians in the society
B) expose the religious charlatans in the society
C) expose women power to seduction
D) coderm men who beat their wives
E) show the significant of religion in our lives.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1845: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as
Options:
A) an epilogue
B) an autobiography
C) a travelogue
D) a prologue
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1846: The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in "The Fence" is
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A) action
B) inertia
C) nostalgia
D) cowardice
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1847: To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by
Options:
A) Banqo and his son
B) two murderers
C) lady Macbeth
D) lady Macbeth and a servant
E) Banqo
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1848:
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?
If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?
The literary style used in the passage above is
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A) discursive
B) rhetorical
C) accusative
D) interrogative
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1849: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of a line is
Options:
A) assonance
B) onomatopoeia
C) alliteration
D) parallelism
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1850: Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is
Options:
A) milly offended by the daughter's behaviour
B) truly outraged by the daughter's behaviour
C) merely pretending to be outraged by the daughter's behaviour
D) deeply offended by the daughter's behaviour
E) indifferent to the daughter's behaviour
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The correct answer is C .