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 191: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s Fragments.The Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that
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A) the visionary is usually a sacrificial lamb
B) society is incurable
C) man is a fateful being
D) the evils that men do live after them
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 192:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of
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A) nature
B) friendship
C) womanhood
D) love
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 193:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'
A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'
A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is
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A) onomatopoeia
B) zeugma
C) assonance
D) paradox
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 194: In As You Like It, the verse which begins ' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about
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A) a storm in winter
B) man's ingratitude
C) Duk Senior cave
D) Le Beau's love for Snowballs
E) Oriando's love for Rosalind
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 195:
A woman cried out.The policeman who was edging nearer had been joined by another.Both were edging nearer.Carefully and slowly.But it was not that that had made the woman cry out.She had seen one of the men's hand slip.He was now holding on by one hand only.The crowd was tense.This was the Kill.Automatically they moved forward in a body.The doctor was in the lead.
The author of this passage creates in the reader
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A) disbelief
B) a feeling of nostalgia
C) a feeling of light hearted relaxation
D) suspense
E) unconcern
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 196: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA ballad is meant to be
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A) acted
B) discussed
C) read
D) sung
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 197: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for
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A) Nwakusor
B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
C) Nwaeze
D) Ngozi
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 198:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.'
On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?
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A) At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
B) After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
C) When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
D) When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 199:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.
The reaction in the passage above is that of
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A) rejection
B) anger
C) protest
D) nausea
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 200: This question is based on Amma Darko's Facesless.The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because
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A) It only occurs in Ghana
B) It could be found only in Africa
C) It is common to almost all nations of the world
D) the novel is read in all parts of the world
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The correct answer is C .