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 521:
'Have you got any hands today?
'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike
'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'
'No thank you'.
In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as
Options:
A) syncedoche
B) paradox
C) oxymoron
D) hyperbole
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 522: A plot in a literary work is about
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A) character delineation
B) casual arrangement of events
C) resolution of conflicts
D) law of poetic justic
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 523: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
The major reason for Juliet's grief is
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A) The death of her cousin;
B) her reluctant marriage to Romeo
C) the banishment of her lover
D) her imminent death
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 524: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is
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A) personification
B) metaphor
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 525:
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
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A) omniscient narrator
B) participatory narrator
C) objective narrator
D) subjective narrator
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 526: This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.''O incomprehensible God!Shall my pilot be''These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the
Options:
A) mystery of existence
B) omnipotence of God
C) duality of life
D) inevitability of death
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 527:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes
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A) a long strike
B) Christmas and Easter holidays
C) a long period of hard work
D) a long vacation
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 528: She unpacked the novels she had brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale.
This character may be best described as a woman
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A) of habit
B) of poor means
C) of wide literary interest
D) With poor memory
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 529: A play is a Tragedy when
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A) the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
B) the main chracter dies before the play ends
C) there is much blood shed in the play
D) the main character is a wicked person
E) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 530:
From the novel; Twelfth Night
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 .