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 1171: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
The sound device used in the extract above is
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A) rhyme
B) alliteration
C) emphasis
D) assonance
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1172:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker
Options:
A) detects discrimination
B) is desirous of adventure
C) hates his old wife
D) knows much of his city men
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1173: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Me to the Orangery Solitude invites, a wagtail, to tell the tangled-wood-tale.
Christopher Okigbo: Heavensgae
The complexity of the poem can be ascribed to the poets use of
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A) archaic diction
B) structural inversion
C) compound words
D) extended metaphor
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1174: The epilogue in a play refers to the
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A) conflict in the play
B) tail-piece
C) opening chorus
D) dramatic action.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1175:
"You can call me a rebel, but I need a job. That's what matters to me." The repercussion of this statement by Aloho is a pointer to the theme ____
Options:
A) Of Corruption
B) That patience is a virtue
C) On Unemployment
D) Of Retributive Justice
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1176: In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he
Options:
A) he did not seem to have any particular plans forn his life
B) had a bad reputation at college as a person with bad manners
C) failed to bring back Niam's wife
D) failed to understand his father.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1177:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed
Options:
A) do not believe in victory
B) are never willing to fight for their rights
C) are no longer willing to fight for their right
D) are determined to give meaning to their life
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1178:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'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
Options:
A) labyrinth
B) drowning
C) forgetfulness
D) trance
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1179:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You Kiss her on the cheek
As white people do,
You Kiss her open-sore lips
As white people do,
You suck slimy saliva
From each other's mouths,
As white people do.'
Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'
The writer of the lines above uses repetition
Options:
A) for emphasis
B) to underscore disapproval
C) to enhance irony
D) for imitation
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1180:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as
Options:
A) diction
B) figures of speech
C) characterization
D) rhythms
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The correct answer is A .