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 501:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'
Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises
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A) exploit
B) frustration
C) danger
D) pain
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 502: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
'' We are here to die of rage! say die of rage because this time the uncircumcised have gone too far...''
The word uncircumcised in the statement above by Nti refers to
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A) Nua and Mvondo
B) the whites
C) the people of Doum
D) the white farmers
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 503:
From the novel; Morountodun
This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.
The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be described as
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A) dramatic epilogue
B) dramatic monologue
C) role-playing
D) flashback
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 504: The phrase the sunset in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation refers to
Options:
A) old age
B) patience
C) caution
D) critical need
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 505: The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called
Options:
A) shifting style
B) narrator's mind style
C) psycho-consciousness style
D) stream of consciousness
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 506: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
The attitude of Nnu Ego when she was told that her >i>Chi would not give her a child is one of
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A) indifference
B) despair
C) apathy
D) hope
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 507:
This question is based on the Literary Appreciation
'Loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands out the woodland ride Wearing While for Easter tide
A.E Housman Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Tree. In the excerpt above, the subject matter is
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A) love of trees
B) cherry bloom
C) snow at easter
D) woodland tide
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 508:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The stylistic device that uses the name of one thing to describe another is called a
Options:
A) synonym
B) metonym
C) mataphor
D) antonym
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 509:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is
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A) an aristocrats's marital problems
B) the pitfalls of a duchess now dead
C) an ambassador's personal life
D) the pride and arrogance of an aristocrat
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 510:
This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''
This implies that
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A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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The correct answer is A .