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:
Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word
Pad
Options:
A) paid
B) mail
C) mat
D) made
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 252: ''His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling''.This description in Great expectations refers to
Options:
A) Mr. Punblechoo
B) Mr. Wemmick
C) Mr. Drummle.
D) Mr. Brown
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 253:
From the novel; Animal farm
This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The message of the novel is that
Options:
A) capitalism is as bad as communism
B) humanism is better than animalism
C) communism is better than capitalism
D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 254:
This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
In Robert Frost's 'Wild Grapes', the girl's brother throws down grapes in the manner he does to
Options:
A) make his sister have her fill
B) allow himself time-in-between to eat
C) make his sister desire to climb the tree
D) allow hinself to have some fun
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 255: Caricature is used to
Options:
A) ridicule a person by distorting his most prominent features
B) censure an individual by emphasizing his weakness
C) expose the folly in literature
D) elicit the artistic potential of dramatists.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 256: A speech or writing used to praise a person or a thing for past or present deeds is
Options:
A) eulogy
B) synecdoche
C) epigram
D) epilogue
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 257:
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'.
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of
Options:
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) metonymy
D) synecdoche
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 258: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.One of the dominant themes if Rubadin's An African Thunderstorm is the
Options:
A) relationship between man and woman
B) activities of man during rainy seasons
C) effect of rain on women and children
D) problem of climate change
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 259:
'I am jealous and passonate
Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is
Options:
A) simile
B) paradox
C) metaphor
D) hyperbole
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 260:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.'In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'
David Diop: The vulture
The dominant literary device used in the lines above is
Options:
A) pun
B) personification
C) simile
D) metaphor
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The correct answer is B .