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 831:
This question is based on Literary Principles
'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses
The tone of the poem above is
Options:
A) optimistic
B) interrogative
C) persuasive
D) pessimistic
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 832: Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar because he
Options:
A) knew that Caesar was ambitious
B) was a great lover of freedom
C) was made to believe that Caesar was ambitious
D) respected Casca and had a high opinion on Cassius
E) was greatly loved by the Romans.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 833: What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his
Options:
A) smart apearance
B) difference
C) gift of microscope
D) lovely tea parties
E) inexhaustible knowledge.
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 834: 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
Options:
A) Metaphors
B) parables
C) hyperboles
D) riddles
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 835:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
'Here lies a great and mighty king
Whose promise none relies on
He never said a foolish thing
Not ever did a wise one'.
The lines above could best from an
Options:
A) epistle
B) episode
C) epiphany
D) epitaph
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 836:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'
In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's
For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was
Options:
A) foressen
B) predetermined
C) anticipated
D) unexpected
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 837: In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is
Options:
A) gently consigned to obscurity in the end
B) justly rewarded in the end.
C) unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
D) given national honours in the end
E) allowed a graceful retirement in old age.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 838:
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
Kabria's second child is
Options:
A) Ottu
B) Adade
C) Essie
D) Obea
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 839:
This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.
Read the excerpt and answer question
"And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"
The dominant device in this excerpt is ___
Options:
A) metaphor
B) synecdoche
C) simile
D) paradox
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 840:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the
Options:
A) material for the shoes of the poor
B) repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
C) hope of the oppressed for a better life
D) oppression of the dispossessed
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The correct answer is A .