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 121:
This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days
Yaremi's main job is
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A) selling cassava
B) harvesting cassava
C) dyeing taffeta cloths
D) sewing taffeta cloths
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 122:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.
Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'
In the passage above, the sea is
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A) romanticised
B) personified
C) criticised
D) praised
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 123: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption"Trust me. My duty is to convince her to play ball with him and then the usual commission keeps rolling in, shee you get?..."The speaker in the excerpt above is
Options:
A) Aloho
B) Ogeyi
C) Odili
D) Ochuole
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 124:
'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'
In this passage, axe of intemperance means
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A) hot temper
B) cool temper
C) evil mind
D) recklessness.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 125: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for
Options:
A) eighteen months
B) two decades
C) twelve years
D) fourty days
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 126:
The phrase living death in a literary work is an example_____________
Options:
A) Synecdoche
B) Prose
C) Oxymoron
D) Aside
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 127:
"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 128: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.Marvell, in To His Coy Mistress uses the imagery of death to
Options:
A) appreciates God's power
B) condemn the lady
C) scare the lady
D) underscore life's transcience
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 129:
This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Li got more accustomed to her home because she
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A) grew a little more religious
B) had greater hold on her stern father
C) found greater solace in an outside relationship
D) became closer to tradition
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 130:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .
'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?
What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...
Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in
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A) the inherent weakness of man
B) the Islamic tradition
C) human destiny
D) the fickleness of human nature
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The correct answer is A .