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 141: 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; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
In Lawrence's Bat the poet's attitude to bat is one of
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A) fear
B) sarcasm
C) contempt
D) flattering
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 142:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is
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A) authoritative
B) mocking
C) appreciative
D) scathing
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 143:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Which of the following are literary genres?
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A) Poetry, farce and faction
B) Fiction, poetry and drama
C) Drama, faction and biography
D) Poetry , orthography and fiction.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 144:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is
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A) deja vu
B) avant-garde
C) medieval
D) metaphysical
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 145: This question is based on selected poem 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; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
The end of Give Me The Minstrel's seatseems to suggest that one needs the
Options:
A) support of others
B) complete command of one's wives
C) support of one's kinsmen
D) aid of pots
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 146:
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a
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A) renegade
B) leper
C) foreigner
D) desperado
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 147: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of
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A) triumph and fulfilment
B) birth and growth
C) death and decay
D) joy and ecstacy
E) illumination and discovery.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 148: Based on Ferdinand Oyono's the Old Man and the Medal, for his sacrifices to the church, Meka gets
Options:
A) a place near an aged leper
B) a land to build a new house
C) appointed into the church elders' council
D) the privilegde to choose a permanent place to sit
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 149:
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
'... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...
This description refers to
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A) Modou Fall
B) Mawdo Ba
C) Daouda Dieng
D) Aissatou
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 150:
"You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close
Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why
Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents
Options:
A) human conscience
B) innate evil in human nature
C) the proximity of man and nature
D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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The correct answer is B .