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 431:
This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
Characterization in the play is
Options:
A) economical but ineffective
B) conomical and effective
C) elaborate but ineffective
D) elaborate and effective
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 432:
This question is based on BAT.
Use the excerpt to answer this question.
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"
The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___
Options:
A) Rhetorical question
B) imagery
C) Alliteration
D) Paradox
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 433:
In Animal Farm, the song
'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.was first sung by
Options:
A) Snowball
B) Squealer
C) Old Major
D) Napoleon
E) Bluebell
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 434:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'
What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?
Options:
A) Eavesdropping
B) Tale-telling
C) Errand-running
D) Gossiping
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 435: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called
Options:
A) a prologue
B) an epilogue
C) a dirge
D) a monologue
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 436: A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as
Options:
A) paradoxial
B) metaphysical
C) logical
D) rhetorical
E) leading
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 437: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,the novel demonstrates the
Options:
A) struggle of man against defeat
B) attempt to catch fish
C) desire to understand life
D) influence of the sea on man
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 438:
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the
Options:
A) fertilization of the earth by moisture
B) loss of man's property
C) seasonal flow of nature
D) happy beginning and sad end of life
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 439: 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.The subject matter of Adeoti's Naked Soles is
Options:
A) soul and mind
B) hunger and strife
C) suffering and despair
D) hatred and bitterness
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 440:
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth-
The sweeping up the heart
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words
Options:
A) misplaced anxiety
B) great relief
C) solemn resignation
D) morbid fear.
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The correct answer is C .