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 1311: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.IN THE PLAY, THE TWO REVENGE PLOTS REVOLVE AROUND
Options:
A) Hamlet against Polonius and Laertes against Claudius
B) Hamlet against Claudius and Laertes gainst Hamlet
C) Claudius against Hamlet and Laertes against Gertrude
D) Ophelia against Hamlet and Laertes against Hamlet
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1312:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The setting in pastoral poetry is usually
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A) oceanic
B) urban
C) encumenical
D) idyllic
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1313: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs
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A) when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours
B) the night before his fishing expedition
C) in his house
D) at the end of the book
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1314: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. 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: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.The dominant image in Adeoti's Hard Lines is
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A) tactile
B) auditory
C) gustatory
D) visual
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1315:
"Rather than so, come fate, into the list,
And champion me to the utterance!"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to
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A) Macbeth's fear of not being king
B) Banqou's children becoming kings
C) Macduff defeating Macbeth on the battle field
D) Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1316: 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 1317: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In the novel, Orwell attempts to
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A) satirize the artificiality of a machine controlled society
B) eulogize the beauty of the socialist system
C) condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems
D) laud the boundless possibilities of the human intellect
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1318:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on
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A) showing casual connection of incidents
B) the vivid presentation of incidents
C) the accurate presentation of incidents
D) narrating the truth of incidents
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1319: In literary devices, pun deals with
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A) placing words side by side
B) playing on words
C) arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
D) placing two opposite phrases
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1320:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'
Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir
The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through the use of
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A) meiosis
B) epigram
C) allusion
D) symbolism
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The correct answer is C .