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.
"The officer, surrounded by these noises,
Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away
To give them time to pull themselves together, and
Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser
In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the
Options:These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.'yet in their finger upon Our navel
The midwives of the spirit say
They feel a foetal throb.
The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs'in the Navel of the soul is
Options:This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'
Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannical?
Options:This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Ibadan,
Running splash of rust
And gold - flung and scattered
Among seven hills like broken
China in the sun.'
J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'
The poem above is memorable for its
Options:This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.
An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.
Options:Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of
Options:This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to
Options:This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''
Achebe's conclusion was that
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