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 171:
"You can call me a rebel, but I need a job. That's what matters to me." The repercussion of this statement by Aloho is a pointer to the theme ____
Options:
A) Of Corruption
B) That patience is a virtue
C) On Unemployment
D) Of Retributive Justice
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 172:
In drama, the antagonist is_____________
Options:
A) the director of the drama
B) the evil witch
C) the character opposing the lead character
D) the “harsh guy
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 173:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is
Options:
A) a copyright
B) an authority to write
C) an author's right
D) a constitional provision
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 174:
This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
The character in the novel who best symbolizes man's pride in his ability to reason is
Options:
A) Henry
B) Maurice
C) Piggy
D) Roger
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 175:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'
In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called
Options:
A) metonymy
B) symbol
C) allusion
D) allegory
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 176:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
'I thank you God for creating me black
For making of me
Porter of all sorrows
Sitting on my head
The World
I wear the Centaur's hide
And I have carried the World since the first morning'.
'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie
The poet's attitude here is being
Options:
A) ironical
B) whimsical
C) sorrowful
D) sarcastic
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 177: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by
Options:
A) Balthasar
B) Boy C
C) Friar John
D) Friar Lawrence
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 178: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.'Festus lyayi:HeroesThe speaker here contends that
Options:
A) soldiers are generally wicked
B) human nature has to do with a profession
C) soldiers are characteristically gentle
D) the latent brutality in man finds expression in war
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 179: The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are
Options:
A) caused by circumstance
B) self-inflicted
C) imposed on them by enemies
D) the act of fate
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 180:
The bar in Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" is a symbol for the___________
Options:
A) presence of God's and his guiding force
B) world
C) boundary between life and death
D) grave
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The correct answer is C .