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 1561: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________
"Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!"
Options:
A) Rhetorical question
B) Oxymoron
C) Alliteration
D) Euphemism
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1562:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Lineation refers to
Options:
A) tracing family descent of poeple in verse
B) the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
C) the arrangement of lines in verse from
D) the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1563:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Fights by the book of arithmetic
The figure of speech in the line above is
Options:
A) hyperbole
B) euphemism
C) litotes
D) innuendo
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1564:
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The Dorothy of the play is
Options:
A) Tony Lumpkin's mother
B) Young Marlow's mother
C) Miss Neville's mother
D) Kate, Hardcastle's daughter
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1565:
This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,
Their mildewed buds of love like pollen
Late caught, damp in a swollen...'
The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is
Options:
A) Onomatopoeia
B) repetition
C) rhythm
D) rhyme
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1566:
From the novel; Native Son
The question is based on Richard Wrights NATIVE SON
Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are
Options:
A) together
B) servant in the white family
C) educated
D) given some respect
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1567:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a statement is made on stage to the hearing of only the audience, it is called
Options:
A) a prologue
B) a soliloquy
C) an aside
D) a diatribe
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1568:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'
The theme of the novel is
Options:
A) hatred
B) corruption
C) poverty
D) morality
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1569:
'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
Hold back hold back-is the time- oh
Endless time-slung in oblivion,
Make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The mood captured in the lines above is one of
Options:
A) fear
B) happiness
C) indifference
D) joy
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1570: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the
Options:
A) feling of doubt
B) feeling of despair
C) feeling of desperation
D) sence of failure
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The correct answer is B .