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 1581:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'
The dominant images in the novel are those of
Options:
A) death and time
B) filth and time
C) death and decay
D) filth and decay
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1582:
This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
'''I wish the boy was here...'''
The old man's cry demonstrates
Options:
A) a desperation for productivity
B) bitterness
C) humiliation
D) a yearning for human brotherhood
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1583:
This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?
Options:
A) Baroka
B) Sadiku
C) lakunle
D) Sidi
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1584:
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, use the excerpt below to answer question 14 and 15.
'.... So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an important child that hath them.
New robes and may not wear.
The literary device used in the excerpt is
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A) simile
B) metaphor
C) Oxymoron
D) apostrophe
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1585:
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.'Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies
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A) litotes
B) transferred epithet
C) synechdoche
D) rhetorical question
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1586: Tone and mood of a poem refers to
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A) locale
B) atmosphere
C) setting
D) space
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1587: Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is
Options:
A) milly offended by the daughter's behaviour
B) truly outraged by the daughter's behaviour
C) merely pretending to be outraged by the daughter's behaviour
D) deeply offended by the daughter's behaviour
E) indifferent to the daughter's behaviour
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1588:
This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face
This act can be interpreted to mean
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A) regression into savagery
B) that he is now fully ready for the dance
C) an attempt to hide from the other children
D) an attempt to hide from the animals he wishes to hunt
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1589: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as
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A) anecdote
B) saturation
C) hyperbole
D) Satire
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1590:
This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''
This implies that
Options:
A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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The correct answer is A .