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 251: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello."Though I do hate him as I do pains, yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign..."The speaker of the excerpt above can be described as
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A) trusting
B) a concubine
C) a schemer
D) ambitious
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 252: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, the gods are portrayed as
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A) saviours of mankind
B) helpless
C) architects of man's destiny
D) amorous
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 253:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
Be him English
Be him African
Be him Nigerian
The lines above are an example of
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A) epitaph
B) anaphora
C) tautology
D) epigram
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 254:
This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The witnesses to the tears in the novel are
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A) Saahir and Lahab
B) Lahab and Hussaina
C) Lahab and Sagiir
D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 255: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
.....So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
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A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 256: This question is based on William Shakespheare's Othello“ ...Fathers, from hence trust not daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?. ” In the excerpt it is implied that daughters are
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A) lascivious
B) petty
C) pretentious
D) thieves
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 257: 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.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the
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A) people's struggle for survival
B) intolerance of the new generation
C) celebration of African tradition
D) criticism of modern tradition
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 258: Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two 'Abiku' poems by J.P Clark and Wole Soyinka?
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A) in each of the two poems, the voice of the Abiku is heard
B) while the tone of Clark's poem is conciliatory, that of Soyinka is defiant
C) it would appear that making body marks on the two Abiku has not served the customary purpose of stopping them from coming again
D) as the two poet portray them, Clark's Abiku can choose to stay or not to stay, but Soyinka's Abiku cannot.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 259: Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the
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A) rise to fame of the central character
B) success of the hero or heroine
C) reward of the hero
D) sudden change in the fate of the central character.
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 260: This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy makes the novel realistic by
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A) interspersing humour with seious narration
B) denying the characters any from of transformation
C) adhering strictly to autolographical facts
D) narrating the story in the first person
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The correct answer is A .