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 201:
This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
The simple news that Nature told
With tender majestyHer message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen
Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?
Options:
A) majesty
B) world
C) tender
D) Nature
E) the poet's sister
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 202: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."We would be believing we dreamt it"The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is
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A) apostrophe
B) assonance
C) antithesis
D) alliteration
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 203:
'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to
Options:
A) a ployman and the herd
B) the rich people of the village
C) the congregation of the church
D) the politicians
E) all those buried in the graveyard
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 204: The grave procession in Soyinka''s ''procession l-Hanging day'' is meant to suggest in the entire poem
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A) the people in the procession are going to the grave
B) the people are moving slowly in order to avoid the sunny spots
C) the people in the procession are solemn
D) the people in the procession are solemn and are going to the grave
E) the people walk soundlessly.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 205: 'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'The last statement in this passage is an example of
Options:
A) understatement
B) overstatement
C) hyperbole
D) sarcastic humour
E) poetic diction
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 206: The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called
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A) a metaphor
B) a simile
C) a personification
D) an irony
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 207: At mines where Xuma worked, the workers were
Options:
A) satisfied
B) confused
C) rebellious
D) overworked
E) respected.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 208:
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of
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A) shock
B) disbelief
C) acceptance
D) grief
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 209:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A creative process in which abstract entities such as virtues and vices are used with intended double meaning is called
Options:
A) tragedy
B) fallacy
C) allegory
D) farce
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 210:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it
Options:
A) is dramatic in impact
B) dispenses with dialogue
C) is an intimate form of expression
D) is tragic in content
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The correct answer is C .