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 421: In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop expresses his
Options:
A) hope that African will triumph over colonialism
B) hatred of Africans
C) affections of the colonial masters
D) love of forced romances
E) hatred of women.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 422:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
'I' ll do my best
To woo your lady.'
What is the sincere desire of the person who made the statement above?
Options:
A) That she succeeds in winning the love for the master
B) That her best is good enough to win affection
C) That she herself becomes the beloved
D) That she herself wins the love
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 423:
'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
Options:
A) repitition
B) alliteration
C) paradox
D) rhyme scheme
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 424:
'The early morning smoke had now gone off the eyes of the day. Trees and houses were still wet from last night's rain, but a cool breeze caressed the world like a gentle hand.'
The dominant literary device in this passage is
Options:
A) metaphor
B) oxymoron
C) synecdoche
D) personification
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 425:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him
Options:
A) purposeful
B) impoverished
C) confused
D) amused
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 426: Leah was finally arrested by the police because she
Options:
A) was betrayed by an enemy
B) was outwitted by the Fox
C) did not offer a big enough bribe to the police
D) bribed the wrong person
E) became too militant.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 427: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,the Chichidodo is hypocritical because it hates
Options:
A) shit
B) maggots
C) maggots but eats shit
D) shit but eats maggots
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 428: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
The watch dogs bark!
Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
The strain of the struting chanticleer
Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of
Options:
A) assonance
B) onomatopeia
C) alliteration
D) consonance
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 429:
'But it has been from the first her great mistake to meet him, marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle: all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men'.
The sentiment expressed here about the curse on women is
Options:
A) that of the writer of the passage
B) that of the lady in the passage
C) that of the lady's parent
D) that of everybody everywhere
E) that of unnamed person.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 430:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '
Golding, Lord of the Flies.
In the passage above, the conch symbolises
Options:
A) bestiality
B) authority
C) dictatorship
D) civilization
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The correct answer is B .