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 611:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'
The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is
Options:
A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
C) Mr. Good Country's son
D) Jesus Christ
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 612: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside....
Options:
A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 613:
This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being
Options:
A) blood thirsty
B) brave
C) humane
D) fearful, yet patriotic
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 614:
This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker
Options:
A) cannot spell correctly
B) cannot speak English correctly
C) is a stranger
D) is very angry
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 615: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
In the novel, Africanness is achieved in both
Options:
A) setting and characterization
B) narration and style
C) diction and syntax
D) pun and style
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 616: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,the Chichidodo is hypocritical because it hates
Options:
A) shit
B) maggots
C) maggots but eats shit
D) shit but eats maggots
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 617:
"In the cold hand of death...
His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike
Shrunk to a sub-soil grub
His head was hallowed and his brain
On scales-was this a trick to prove
Fore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of
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A) juxtaposition
B) rhetoric
C) iambic meter
D) allusions
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 618:
'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'
John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The tone of this poem is generally
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A) conversational
B) imaginative
C) serious
D) appreciative
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 619: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adorationThe figure of speech in the lines above is
Options:
A) antithesis
B) invocation
C) personification
D) apostrophe
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 620:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid...
In the lines above, the character is
Options:
A) expressing his unhappiness about death
B) expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
C) lamenting over his unreciprocated love
D) wishing for death to come
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The correct answer is C .