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 51: There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
The speaker uses a string of
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A) Metaphors
B) parables
C) hyperboles
D) riddles
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 52:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'.
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of
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A) simile
B) metaphor
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 53:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.
Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'
In the passage above, the sea is
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A) romanticised
B) personified
C) criticised
D) praised
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 54: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.At the end of Ovonramwen's discussion with Gallway and Hutton, one can conclude that Ovonramwen is
Options:
A) fascinated by their gifts
B) eager to sign the trade treaty presented
C) suspicious about their real intentions
D) ready to welcome them
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 55: 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 Rubadiri''s '' Stanley Meets Mutesa'', the poet portrays the hardship experienced by the explorer''s party through
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A) visual and verbal images
B) visual and tactile images
C) olfactory and visual images
D) auditory and olfactory images
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 56: One of the themes of macbeth is
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A) how to become a thene
B) the prophecy of the weird sisters
C) the fight with the macduff
D) the defect of evil by good
E) the death of duncan.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 57:
THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.
Either withdraw unto some private place,
Or reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.
This appeal is made by
Options:
A) Romeo to Mercutio
B) Benvolio to Tybalt
C) Benvolio to both Tybalt and Mercutio
D) Romeo to both Mercutio and Tybalt.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 58: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is
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A) epilogue
B) mime
C) soliloquy
D) aside
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 59:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of
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A) ambiguity
B) anecdotes
C) prologue
D) suspense
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 60: From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark's Abiku' is set in
Options:
A) ancient times
B) a hut in a riverine village
C) a modern city by the sea
D) the only mansion in the village.
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The correct answer is B .