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 11: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for
Options:
A) Nwakusor
B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
C) Nwaeze
D) Ngozi
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 12:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of
Options:
A) ambiguity
B) anecdotes
C) prologue
D) suspense
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 13:
This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.;....I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.
Who spoke these words?
Options:
A) Lady Macbeth
B) The fiest murderer
C) Macbeth
D) THE SECOND NURDERER
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 14:
THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he
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A) has wasted all his mother's money
B) is money
C) has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
D) has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 15: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.What are the main motives of the British in the Beinin Kingdom?
Options:
A) Domination of the kingdom and its trade
B) Mediation in Benin's domestic problems
C) Elimination of Oba Ovonramwen
D) Installation of a puppet regime in Benin Kingdom
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 16:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing
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A) retrospection
B) flashback
C) historical drama
D) dramatic shift
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 17:
The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________
Options:
A) he remains at a distance from much of the action that concerns and affects him at the beginning
B) he refuses to appoint Iago as the Lieutenant
C) although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State
D) Iago sees him as an enemy
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 18:
The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is
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A) stanza
B) rhythm
C) rhyme
D) verse
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 19:
"...Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity"
The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____
Options:
A) apostrophe
B) personification
C) metaphor
D) simile
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 20:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.The theme of the poem above is
Options:
A) non-peaceful nature of love
B) diminishing nature of love
C) permanence of love
D) decaying nature of wood
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The correct answer is A .