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 1151: An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
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A) pyrrhic
B) props
C) pathos
D) parody
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1152:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A paradox is
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A) applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
B) a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
C) an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
D) an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1153: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
The major reason for Juliet's grief is
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A) The death of her cousin;
B) her reluctant marriage to Romeo
C) the banishment of her lover
D) her imminent death
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1154: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Both comedy and tragedy have
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A) climax
B) tragic hero
C) stanza
D) happy ending
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1155:
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
'And the name died before the man.'From the statement above in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young, what happens to the athlata?
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A) He comes to a disgreaceful end
B) He loses his medial to another
C) He dies eventually
D) He dies prematurely
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1156: 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
In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its
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A) dramatic irony
B) botanical allusion
C) olfactory image
D) extended metaphor
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1157:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.The theme of the poem above is
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A) non-peaceful nature of love
B) diminishing nature of love
C) permanence of love
D) decaying nature of wood
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1158:
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 and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The recurrent nightmares in Ojaide's 'The Owl Wakes Us' suggest
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A) a dreamful existence
B) anxieties destroying peaceful sleep
C) repression in governance
D) broken promises
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1159: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is
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A) synecdoche
B) melodrama
C) enjambment
D) alliteration
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1160:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A primary ballad is associated with
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A) educated people
B) urban folk
C) the nomads
D) rural folk
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The correct answer is D .