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 701: The allusion in Hughe's The Negro Speaks of Rivers is mainly
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A) literacy
B) bibilical
C) historical
D) classical
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 702:
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the
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A) creation and resolution of conflicts
B) sale of Henchard's wife
C) exploration of comic plot
D) wheat business in Casterbridge
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 703: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of
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A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 704: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.'William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of
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A) paradox
B) metaphor
C) simile
D) ellipsis
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 705:
In a 'Portrait', a poet writes:
At mankind's feast,i take my place
In solemn,sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While i defile the dinner plate.
The tone of this passage may be described as
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A) solemn
B) self-mocking
C) dead earnest
D) serious
E) angry
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 706:
These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies
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A) litotes
B) transferred epithet
C) synechdoche
D) rhetorical question
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 707:
'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
Did I go to college?
Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel
The literary device used in the passage above is
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A) onomatopoeia
B) parallelism
C) metaphor
D) simile
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 708: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a
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A) stanza in poetry
B) meter in poetry
C) trope in poetry
D) verse in poetry
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 709:
"They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,
Kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels
Waiting to be loaded."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is
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A) rhetorical question
B) simile
C) metaphor
D) mixed metaphor
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 710:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to
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A) assist in the development of the characters
B) sustain the reader's interest
C) reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
D) slow down the pace of the plot development
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The correct answer is B .