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 General Literary Appreciation.
Weep not child, weep not my darling
With these kisses let me remove your tears
The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious
They shall no longer possess the sky....
The speaker of the lines is
Options:
A) optimistic
B) carefree
C) helpless
D) pessimistic
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 502:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and
Options:
A) terror
B) horror
C) frustration
D) sympathy
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 503:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of
Options:
A) three trees on the low sky
B) empty wine-skins
C) spiritual rebirth
D) night -fires going out
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 504:
This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is
Options:
A) bereaved
B) homeless
C) recovering from an illness
D) a trained nurse
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 505:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child
The friendship between Laye and Marie lasted because
Options:
A) they were schoolmates
B) they had mutual respect for each other
C) his uncle approved of her
D) Marie was a beautiful girl
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 506: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; 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.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of
Options:
A) the old generation
B) new generation
C) present generation
D) successive generation
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 507:
This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is
Options:
A) iconoclastic
B) fatalistic
C) rhetorical
D) optimistic
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 508:
This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
In the play the general picture depicted is that of
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A) lower-class degeneracy
B) succeefully arranged marriages
C) chaotic value systems
D) claerly focused personalities
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 509:
________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
Options:
A) Referrals
B) Chiasmus
C) Metonymy
D) Allusions
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 510: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, the man is despised by the wife and family because he
Options:
A) does not give them sufficient money to maintain the house
B) does not capitalize on his education and position to get ahead
C) does not join Koomson's political party
D) fails in his campaign to get into the government house
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The correct answer is B .