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: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,the novel demonstrates the
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A) struggle of man against defeat
B) attempt to catch fish
C) desire to understand life
D) influence of the sea on man
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 2: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In David Diop''s ''The Vultures'', the colonialist are portrayed as
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A) hypocritical and oppressive
B) interllecture and civilized
C) humanitarian and sympathetic
D) adventurous and daring
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 3:
"Thou loosest labour
As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air
With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that
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A) the air cannot be cut
B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 4: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as
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A) assistant to Sycorax
B) leader of the spirits
C) Prospero's daughter
D) Alonso's wife
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 5:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called
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A) theatre of the absurd
B) role-playing
C) audience participation
D) total theatre
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 6:
An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a
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A) short story
B) diary
C) novella
D) novel
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 7:
This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being
Options:
A) paradoxical
B) anttithetical
C) illogical
D) tautological
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 8:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap
The extract above from Wole Soyinka's
Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between
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A) madam and receiver
B) tenant and telephone
C) landlady and tenant
D) receiver and thunderclap
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 9: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is
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A) flashback
B) stream of consciousness
C) foreshadowing
D) play-within-the-play
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 10:
______is a subdivision of a poem?
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A) sentence
B) lines
C) stanza
D) rhyme
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The correct answer is B .