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 381:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'...and we learn to sing half familiar half strange songs
We learn to dance to half familiar half strange rhythms...'
Options:
A) destruction is present in almost every action
B) nature is the sole destructive force
C) animals are the sole destructive force
D) birds are the sole destruction force
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 382:
________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
Options:
A) Referrals
B) Chiasmus
C) Metonymy
D) Allusions
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 383:
Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________
Options:
A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 384: 'She came in silken Drapes' is about the
Options:
A) virtures of love
B) killing of a coral snake
C) danger of false love
D) beautiful butterfly
E) sleeping leopards.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 385: The subject of 'If You Should Know Me' by Oswald Mtshali is that the
Options:
A) blacks should create a new image for themselves
B) blacks should get ajusted to the image the whites have created for them
C) whites should know the blacks very well
D) whites should deal with the uncompromising blacks
E) blacks should always be law abiding
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 386: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases......
Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
The poem above can best be described as
Options:
A) epic
B) heroic
C) praise
D) quatrain
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 387:
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 388:
This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.
"Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.
Options:
A) climax
B) personification
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 389:
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
Options:
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 390:
He would like some good Fufu, but without a lot of meat, street Fufu is miserable food, and with meat the cost will crucify a man completely.
The man in this passage is obviously
Options:
A) a rich man
B) a poor man
C) an ignorant man
D) a rich ignorant man
E) a poor unthinking man
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The correct answer is B .