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:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about
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A) his unwillingness to stay with his parents
B) his affection for his uncle
C) the strength of communal living in Africa
D) the irresponsibility of his parents
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 52:
A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ........
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A) Epistrophe
B) Ellipsis
C) Hypallage
D) Hendiady
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 53: An over-used expression is
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A) a cliche
B) a cacophony
C) an epigram
D) an archetype
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 54: The 'Settings in a novel refers to
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A) the point in the story where we first encounter the main character
B) the overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
C) the home country of the hero or heroine
D) the location where the main event in the novel takes place
E) all the various places mentioned in the novel.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 55:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.
Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?
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A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
B) Family life, death and marabouts
C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
D) Spirits, magicians and death
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 56:
This question is based on Literary Principles
''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.
W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is
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A) cbba cdda
B) bbac ddac
C) ddca bbca
D) abbc addc
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 57: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties?
Options:
A) An inner tube of a bicycle
B) A royal message from Queen Victoria
C) A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
D) A bottle of gin
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 58:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called
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A) irony
B) paradox
C) hyperbole
D) satire
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 59: The banished Duke regained his kingdom when his brother Frederick
Options:
A) was defeated in battle
B) was rejected by his people
C) died on his way to the woods
D) was converted by a religious man
E) became too old to rule
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 60:
This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
'...Then, let her take another husband from among her own people. A woman without a man is like rich farm soil without the feel of roots.
Beautiful woman without a man is a crab-over-protected by shells: selfish...'
This statement in the play refers to the
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A) attack on Benin customs by the whitemen
B) marital status of Queen Victoria
C) hatred the Oba has for unmarried white women
D) Oba's desire to marry Queen Victoria
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The correct answer is B .