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 1: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
The above poem essentially deals with the theme of
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A) old age
B) childhood innocence
C) beauty of the rainbow
D) fatherhood
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 2:
This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is
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A) contented
B) indifferent
C) anxious
D) enthusiastic
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 3: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
The poet persona in Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is
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A) optimistic
B) pessimistic
C) romantic
D) sarcastic
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 4:
Literature is studied as a subject at school because
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A) it exposes students to the realities of life
B) it provides entertainment
C) it merely gives additional work to students
D) it teaches the use of words
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 5: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is
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A) personification
B) metaphor
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 6: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options.The stressed syllables are written in capital letters departmental
Options:
A) DEpartmental
B) dePARTmental
C) departMENtal
D) departmenTAL
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 7:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'I cannot blind myself
To putrefying carcasses in the market place
Pulling giant vultures
From the sky.
Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?
The tone of the lines above is one of
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A) defiance
B) anger
C) mourning
D) anxiety
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 8:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
A denouement in a play
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A) causes conflicts
B) creates conflicts
C) resolves conflicts
D) creates catastrophe
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 9:
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the
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A) contrast between the old and the new
B) conflict between belief and unbelief
C) conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
D) conflict between foolhardiness and kindness
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 10:
*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 image set in the lines above are of
Options:
A) rain and flood in June
B) discomfort and likely destruction
C) the days of Noah
D) an animal insects and fun
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The correct answer is B .