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 1351: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.'William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of
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A) paradox
B) metaphor
C) simile
D) ellipsis
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1352:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.'
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of
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A) metonymy
B) assonance
C) metaphor
D) litotes
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1353: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes
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A) cruelty to servants
B) aristocratic snobbery
C) gossiping females
D) over-indulgent parents
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1354: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, Winston writes that the hope of the country lies on the
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A) ministry of the truth
B) proles
C) party
D) children
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1355:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.One of the thematic preoccupations of Awooner's The Anvil and the Hammer is
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A) clash of cultures
B) revival of colonalism
C) the changing face of colonial masters
D) the good attributes of colonalism
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1356:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe figure of speech involved in the lines above is
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A) epigram
B) pun
C) simile
D) personification
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1357:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.
Oculi, 'Orphan'
These lines illustrate the use of
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A) sadism
B) sophism
C) satire
D) euphemism
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1358:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of
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A) disgust
B) indignation
C) fear
D) sorrow
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1359: In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he
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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 1360: When Mr. Jagger''s told Joe Gargery to ''bear in mind, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better'', what he meant was that
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A) Holdfast was a better dog when compared to Brag
B) it was better to hold fast on one''s beliefs than to brag about them
C) a faithful, steadfast dog was better than a dog that gives one cause to bragof its beauty
D) Joe Gargery should keep his mouth shut.
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The correct answer is B .