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 81:
This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Kate could best be described as
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A) s mild tempered heroine
B) an unassuming aristocrat
C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
D) an acutely sensitive character
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 82: 'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that
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A) the sun setb after the arrival of Stanley
B) Stanley was shut out of Western civilization
C) Stanley symbolizes the advert of colonization
D) Stanley was very well recieved
E) Stanley thought he would be eaten up by the natives.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 83:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is a
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A) comedy
B) fable
C) prose
D) picaresque
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 84: A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as
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A) exclamation
B) litotes
C) metonymy
D) hyperbole
E) antonym.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 85:
This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
'... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'
Who made the above statement and to whom?
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A) Macduff to Ross
B) Malcolm to Macduff
C) Malcolm to Ross
D) Macduff to Malcolm.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 86: 'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of
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A) excitement
B) warmth
C) hopefulness
D) high spirits
E) sadness.
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The correct answer is E .
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Question 87:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a
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A) hexameter
B) hyperbole
C) metaphor
D) soliloquy
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 88:
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth
The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of
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A) trance
B) drowning
C) forgetfulness
D) labyrinth
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 89: 'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of
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A) details
B) simple words
C) short sentences
D) the past tense
E) puntuation.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 90: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
Nnaife's conscription into the army is portrayed as part of
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A) family conflict
B) British oppression
C) family tradition
D) socitetal intrigue
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The correct answer is D .