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 241:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
The epilogue in a literary composition is
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A) at the beginning
B) in the middle
C) at the end
D) just before the end
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 242: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to
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A) give her a befitting burial
B) take good care of her children
C) take another wife
D) allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 243: In the poem, 'The Cathedral', Kofi Awoonor expressed
Options:
A) sorrow at the disappearance of his village
B) his feeling about traditional religion
C) disapproval of the change from Africa's past life to the present modern
D) anger at life slavery and colonialism
E) his approval for the building of a cathedral in his village
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 244:
This question is on Literary Appreciation
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
Options:
A) derisive
B) ironic
C) melancholic
D) harsh
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 245:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of
Options:
A) disgust
B) indignation
C) fear
D) sorrow
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 246: "....checking the coins against the tickets, he began to count the morning's take. It was mostly what he expected at this time of the month: small coins, a lot of pesewas,..."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,what time of the month is being referred to in the above statement from the novel?
Options:
A) Passion week
B) Passover week
C) Pay day
D) Rainy day
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 247: Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he
Options:
A) paid the largest dowry
B) showed the greatest love for her
C) bribed property man
D) was a friend of Anansewa's father
E) paid her school fees.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 248:
This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
Who is Mr Cole?
Options:
A) a black tenant at the first apartment at England
B) Adah's colleague at the Consulate
C) Adah's nephew she's forced to live with after Pa's death
D) Adah's elementary school teacher
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 249:
Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or featheredThe dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is
Options:
A) apostrophe
B) personification
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
E) simile.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 250: Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
The dominant mood in this passage is one of
Options:
A) Sadness
B) anxiety
C) anger
D) nonchalance
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The correct answer is B .