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 651:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Kate, Hardcastle's daughter, agrees to her father's choice of a husband for her but is critical of the
Options:
A) mother's non-participation in the choice
B) long notice given her of the suitor's arrival
C) custom which allows her father to choose for her
D) suitor's reserved and bashful nature
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 652: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption (ACP Yakubu in his office)... How can that old crook of a Judge acquit and discharge a very clear case of cocaine pushing. What evidence is he looking for?...' The technique used in the excerpt above is called
Options:
A) interior monologue
B) apostrophe
C) dramatic monologue
D) soliloquoy
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 653:
'Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed'
The mood registered in these lines is
Options:
A) excitement
B) depression
C) gaiety
D) happiness
E) persimism
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 654: This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
The simple news nature told
With tender majesty Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me
To whom does her in line 5 refers to?
Options:
A) God
B) Letter
C) World
D) Nature
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 655:
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____
Options:
A) is a virgin
B) has a wealthy family
C) is of marriageable age
D) is free from her family
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 656: This question is based on General Literary Principles
The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as
Options:
A) harmatia
B) catharsis
C) hubris
D) epistasis
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 657:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?
Options:
A) Rigours of formal courtship
B) Being introduced to a wife
C) Demands by in-laws
D) Demands by the wife
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 658:
'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....
Options:
A) The end
B) a lover's Hope
C) Joy's of being in love
D) The journey of life
E) Glad lover
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 659:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'She certainly doesn't want to play
Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.
Life before Man by Margaret Atwood
According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is
Options:
A) beautiful and vivacious
B) dishonest and deceitful and
C) careless and dowdy
D) manipulative and predatory
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 660:
This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
The simple news that Nature told
With tender majestyHer message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen
Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?
Options:
A) majesty
B) world
C) tender
D) Nature
E) the poet's sister
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The correct answer is D .