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 321:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called
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A) peripety
B) exposition
C) denouement
D) catharsis
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 322:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed
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A) deus ex machina
B) dramatis personae
C) contrived manipulation
D) dramatic reversals
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 323: This question is based on Ademiluyi's The New Man.
The metamorphosis that takes place in the novel is manly due to
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A) disillusionment
B) greed and avarice
C) love and affection
D) selfishness
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 324:
The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called
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A) psycho-consciousness styles
B) narrator's mind style
C) shifting style
D) stream of consciousness
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 325:
This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: 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 in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,
Their mildewed buds of love like pollen
Late caught, damp in a swollen...'
The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is
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A) Onomatopoeia
B) repetition
C) rhythm
D) rhyme
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 326:
From the novel; Animal farm
This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of
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A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 327:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a statement is made on stage to the hearing of only the audience, it is called
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A) a prologue
B) a soliloquy
C) an aside
D) a diatribe
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 328: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
The sound device used in the extract above is
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A) rhyme
B) alliteration
C) emphasis
D) assonance
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 329:
From the novel; The Wives' Revolt
This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.
The play is pre occupied with
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A) the fight by women to keep their goats
B) the evil that oil money breeds
C) women liberation from males domination
D) Women's protest against men's wickedness
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 330: This question is based on General Literary Principles
The use of gestures to communicate in drama is known as
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A) mime
B) melodrama
C) soliloquy
D) burlesque
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The correct answer is A .