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 511:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'
The literary device used in this passage is
Options:
A) antithesis
B) climax
C) epigram
D) anticlimax
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 512:
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.
...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies
Options:
A) meaningless foreign religious parctices
B) meaningless indigenous religious practices
C) the architectural beaty of the cathedral
D) the Catholic Church parctices
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 513:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You amble on
We can no longer
Wait for nature's course
We must deliver
You
With
Force'
Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'
The mood in the lines above is one of
Options:
A) fear
B) sorrow
C) joy
D) indignation
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 514: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A fable is a story in which
Options:
A) allegations are made about characters
B) animals or things are used as characters
C) there is an important setting
D) the story is told in poetic form
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 515:
This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The skeleton of the marlin implies the
Options:
A) sharks' predatory inclination
B) futility of human struggle
C) old man's lack of faith
D) old man's incompetence in fishing
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 516:
This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
Which of the following characters dies last?
Options:
A) Catherine
B) Heathcliff
C) Linton
D) Mr. Linton
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 517: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the
Options:
A) people's struggle for survival
B) intolerance of the new generation
C) celebration of African tradition
D) criticism of modern tradition
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 518:
"Will college make you a better Olokun
Priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors
Better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-
Hearted priest
Of Olokun. Did I go to college?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is
Options:
A) onomatopoeia
B) metaphor
C) simile
D) parallelism
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 519: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The main aim of of caricature is to
Options:
A) describe
B) expose
C) emphasize
D) ridicule
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 520:
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 .