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.
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'BEHOLD her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.'
The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is
Options:The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is
Options:This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through
Options:This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate
Options:'But Obatal,
God Creation,
Has a way
Of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the
Options:This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The events in the novel are set in
Options:This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
' ... In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?'
In Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn', the recurrent use of the rhetorical question in the lines above suggests
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