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 111:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Mock-heroic poetry elevates
Options:
A) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
D) the important tales of heroes of the past era
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 112:
This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.
"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called
Options:
A) alliteration
B) imagery
C) onomatopoeia
D) hyperbole
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 113:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The poet's mood in Gabriel Okara's 'The Fisherman's invocation' is characterized by
Options:
A) dissatisfaction
B) anxiety
C) contentment
D) self-doubt
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 114:
This question is based on Literary Principles
'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?
Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay
In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to
Options:
A) put the addressee on the defensive
B) show off to listener
C) provike a fight
D) find out the truth from the addresee
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 115:
From the novel; Animal farm
This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The execution of some of the animals on the orders of Napoleon is to
Options:
A) prevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
B) make the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
C) achieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
D) pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 116: This question is based on Literary AppreciationIf I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice... Is meal Heron:Pardon me.The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of
Options:
A) plagiarism
B) anaphora
C) paralipsis
D) alliteration
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 117:
'All day long, all along the line
Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'
For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means
Options:
A) creativity
B) amusement
C) relaxation
D) restriction
E) freedom.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 118:
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses To Tears
The stealing of three thousand naira by the messenger and the manner of its presentation can be interpreted as Gimba's
Options:
A) sentimental attachment to money
B) approbation of stealing
C) condemnaton of social injustice
D) justification of social vices
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 119: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Caliban's intention to rape Miranda is born out of the desire to
Options:
A) marry her
B) destroy the island
C) compete with Ferdinand
D) populate the island with Calibans
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 120:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?The lines above end in a literary device known as
Options:
A) Irony
B) conceit
C) transfered epithet
D) rhetorical question
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The correct answer is D .