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 1731:
'A dungeon horrible, one all sides round'
As one great furnace flamed, yet for those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible'.
The phrase 'darkness visible' in the above lines is an example of
Options:
A) metaphor
B) hyperbole
C) oxymoron
D) litotes.
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 1732: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is
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A) personification
B) metaphor
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1733: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is
Options:
A) Claudius
B) Lucianus
C) Gozango
D) Baptista
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1734:
This question is on Literary Appreciation
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
Options:
A) derisive
B) ironic
C) melancholic
D) harsh
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 1735:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Which of the following divisions is used as`a technical device to denote the symbolic significance of certain events?
Options:
A) Day, morning and afternoon
B) Morning, noon and night
C) Morning, evening and midnight
D) Mid-day, midnight and morning
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1736:
A folk-tale is a__________?
Options:
A) Novel
B) Work Of Fiction
C) Biography
D) Novelette
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1737:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of
Options:
A) parody
B) paradox
C) parallelism
D) metonymy
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1738: 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
Thorn in Adeotiu's Naked Soles symbolizes
Options:
A) victory
B) bleakness
C) destruction
D) suffering
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 1739:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'' Old father, old artificer
Bear me now and ever in good stead''
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce.
The word 'artificer' describes
Options:
A) a sage
B) a craftsman
C) a magician
D) an artificial person
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 1740: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its
Options:
A) dramatic irony
B) botanical allusion
C) olfactory image
D) extended metaphor
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The correct answer is C .