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 371: This question is based on General Literary Principles
A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is
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A) a fictional character
B) a stock character
C) a rounded character
D) an antagonist
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 372:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched,
I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears
The tone of the poet is
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A) optimistic
B) supplicatory
C) sympathetic
D) piteous
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 373: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of
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A) the old generation
B) new generation
C) present generation
D) successive generation
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 374:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A paradox is
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A) applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
B) a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
C) an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
D) an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 375: The episode in which the priestess of Agbala takes Ezinma to the shrine at night is meant to demostrate how
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A) daring Okonkwo is
B) much the priestess dislikes Okonkwo's family
C) much concerned for his family Okonkwo is
D) disrespectful to traditional office holders Umuofia is
E) rude and unfeeling the priestess is
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 376: Which of the following statements best describes comedy
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A) A play in which no body dies
B) A play which makes us laugh
C) play in which the hero is a clown
D) a play which end happily
E) a play which is not boring.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 377:
A limerick has
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A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
B) formal and elaborate style and humour
C) humour,rhyme scheme and five lines
D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 378:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he rose; shook a crumb or two from his waist coat, and expanding his broad chest, smiled happily, not because he felt particularly light-hearted his happy smile was simply the result of a good digestion.
The character referred to in this passage
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A) is excited by the news in the paper
B) is lonely and unhappy
C) has spent a long time over his food
D) is pleased with himself after a good meal
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 379: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with
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A) disdain
B) indifference
C) honour
D) kid gloves
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 380: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the action in the novel is built around
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A) Julia
B) Big Brother
C) Winston Smith
D) O'Brien
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The correct answer is C .