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 11: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of
Options:
A) onomatopoeia
B) alliteration
C) assonance
D) consonance.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 12:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The style of writing in the passage can be described as
Options:
A) introspective
B) confused
C) confrontational
D) passive
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 13: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies
Options:
A) unrequired love
B) mutual love
C) impossible love
D) erotic love
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 14:
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.
The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's
'Songs of Sorrow' is that of
Options:
A) an enjoyable tour
B) a difficult journey
C) a pleasant journey
D) an uneventful tour
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 15:
From the novel; Animal farm
This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of
Options:
A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 16:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
An iambic metrical foot consists of
Options:
A) an unstressed syllable foolowing a stressed syllable
B) a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
C) an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
D) a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 17: A play is a Tragedy when
Options:
A) the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
B) the main chracter dies before the play ends
C) there is much blood shed in the play
D) the main character is a wicked person
E) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 18: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to
Options:
A) discover the beauty of a literary work
B) finds faults in a literary work
C) analyse and evaluate a literary work
D) compare literary works
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 19:
'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall
Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from
My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from
My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug
The lines above are an example of a
Options:
A) light verse
B) light opera
C) limerick
D) lampoon
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 20:
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.
The author's thematic concern is
Options:
A) the boy's assistance to the man
B) life in a fishing community
C) the achievements of the old man
D) the ability to rise above defeat
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The correct answer is D .