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 1191:
The question is based on Williams Shakespeare's OTHELLO
"O heaven; How got she out?
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maid-hood
May be abused?
The speaker of the excerpt above is________
Options:
A) Brabantio
B) Othello
C) Gratiano
D) Roderigo
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1192:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The writer's satire is most biting when applied to
Options:
A) the Hastings
B) Mr. Hardcastle
C) Young Marlow
D) Mrs. Hardcastle
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1193:
Pick out the odd item
Options:
A) a Raisin in the Sun
B) Twelfth Night
C) Ozidi
D) The Concubine
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1194: From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark's Abiku' is set in
Options:
A) ancient times
B) a hut in a riverine village
C) a modern city by the sea
D) the only mansion in the village.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1195:
This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
Pa Noble became a living legend because
Options:
A) several conflicting stories were woven around him
B) he attained the status of a first-class citizen
C) he was the only successful son of a Benin chief
D) he was rich and very generous
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1196:
Awonoor's 'The Anvil and the Hammer' is best described as a/an___________
Options:
A) free verse
B) blank verse
C) ode
D) apologue
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1197:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of
Options:
A) detachment
B) immediacy
C) alienation
D) nostalgia
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1198:
"In the cold hand of death...
His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike
Shrunk to a sub-soil grub
His head was hallowed and his brain
On scales-was this a trick to prove
Fore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of
Options:
A) juxtaposition
B) rhetoric
C) iambic meter
D) allusions
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1199: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): 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.): Weast African Verse.In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader
Options:
A) not to lose hope in the face of adversity
B) to enjoy his success
C) to give up if he does not succeed
D) to work harder even if he succeeds
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1200:
The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......
Options:
A) Action
B) Character
C) Characterization
D) Dramatis personae
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The correct answer is C .