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 31:
Use the extract below to answer questions
Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
Line 3: so was it when my life began
Line 4: so is it now
Line 5: so is it when I have grown
Line 6: the child is the father of the man.
The object of the extract is____?
Options:
A) childishness
B) the unchanging cycle of nature
C) the adverse effect of old age
D) human being
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 32:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun
Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
And, having done that, thou hast done,
I fear no more.'
These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of
Options:
A) pun
B) personification
C) hyperbole
D) quibble
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 33:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.
But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.
Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'
The passage above is an example of
Options:
A) hyperbolism
B) juxtaposition
C) understatement
D) didactism
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 34: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is
Options:
A) euphemism
B) synedoche
C) catharsis
D) oxymoron
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 35:
From the novel; Harvest of Corruption
Chief Ade Amaka portrays_______
Options:
A) betrayal of public trust
B) fraud and misfortune
C) lust and deceitfulness
D) the evils of capitalism
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 36: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader
Options:
A) not to lose hope in the face of adversity
B) to enjoy his success
C) to give up if he does not succeed
D) to work harder even if he succeeds
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 37:
What is the narrator of a poem called?
Options:
A) author
B) speaker
C) narrator
D) Voice
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 38: "Keats" "Ode" to a Nightingale" can best be described as
Options:
A) an appreciation of nature
B) an appreciation of the beauty of the nightingale
C) a reflection ont he uncertainties of life
D) a description of nature
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 39:
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 40:
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
Options:
A) shock
B) disbelief
C) acceptance
D) grief
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The correct answer is D .