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 981: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, one of the changes introduced into St Agnes' Church by Father Benedict is that
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A) everyone must take holy communion
B) there must be fasting every month
C) the Credo must be recited in igbo
D) the Kyrie must be rendered only in Latin
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 982: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The play is about love
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A) longing and ambition
B) pretence and hatred
C) loss and death
D) commitment and marriage
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 983:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'
John Updike, Wash
The images set in the lines above are of
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A) the days of Noah
B) rain and flood in June
C) discomfort and likely destruction
D) an animal, insects and fun
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 984:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a
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A) traditional poem
B) ballad
C) lyrical poem
D) blank verse
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 985:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:CasualtiesThe imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through
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A) metaphor
B) personification
C) synedoche
D) metonym
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 986: In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to
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A) the abode of the dead
B) the palace of Achilles
C) the abode of the Gods
D) the ringing plants of windy Troy
E) the land of the idle king.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 987:
This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A 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. (ed.):West African Verse
The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is
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A) the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
B) that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
C) the danger in the driving profession
D) that roads are death-traps for drivers
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 988: The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called
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A) prologue
B) oxymoron
C) apostrophe
D) costume
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 989: What literary mode best described Soyinka's The Trial Of Brother Jero, the most central deals with the
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A) Tragedy
B) Satire
C) Tragi-comedy
D) Epic
E) Baroque.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 990:
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .
In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?
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A) By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
B) By introducing him to hermother
C) By giving him her portrait with an inscription
D) By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers
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The correct answer is C .