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 591: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.The theme of the poem Give me The Minstrel's seat centres on
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A) fortune
B) marriage
C) companionship
D) divorce
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 592:
An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a
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A) short story
B) diary
C) novella
D) novel
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 593:
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.
In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a
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A) butterfly
B) bird
C) bee
D) wood nymph
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 594:
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play
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A) could have been averted
B) is predestined
C) is brought on enmity
D) brought misfortune on the lovers
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 595: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are
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A) understatement and hyperbole
B) irony and metaphor
C) simile and personification
D) irony and understatement
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 596: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its
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A) dramatic irony
B) botanical allusion
C) olfactory image
D) extended metaphor
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 597:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of
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A) death and disappointment
B) appearance and reality
C) life and disappointment
D) love and death
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 598: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A play is called a comedy when
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A) there is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
B) nobody dies in it
C) there is no serious quarrel in it
D) there is a happy resolution of contradictions
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 599:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;
The speaker in the statement above is being
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A) symbolical
B) analogical
C) metaphorical
D) parabolical
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 600:
This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'
The dominant images in the novel are those of
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A) death and time
B) filth and time
C) death and decay
D) filth and decay
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The correct answer is D .