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 61: 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 Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse, the poet juxtaposes
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A) love with hatred
B) defiance with submission
C) suffering with pleasure
D) safety with danger
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 62:
This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?
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A) Indifference
B) Despair
C) Apathy
D) Nobility of mind
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 63: The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of
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A) an implacable destructive force
B) an invading but paradoxically welcome force
C) a welcome and benevolent force
D) a sinister and ominous force.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 64:
"The poet needs to be up at night,when the world
Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders
Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where
The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is
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A) suffering from insomnia
B) one of the numerous living in poverty
C) not an ordinary individual
D) a difficult individual
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 65:
The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______
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A) Metaphor
B) Symbolism
C) Pathetic Fallacy
D) Analogy
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 66:
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to
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A) Find faults in a literary work
B) Analyze and evaluate a literary work
C) compare and contrast novels
D) Discover the beauty of a literary work.
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 67:
"...Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity"
The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____
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A) apostrophe
B) personification
C) metaphor
D) simile
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 68: This question is based on Amma Darko's Facesless.The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because
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A) It only occurs in Ghana
B) It could be found only in Africa
C) It is common to almost all nations of the world
D) the novel is read in all parts of the world
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 69: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.A savage custom, barbaric, out-dated Rejected, denounced, accursed Excommunicated, archaic, degrading Humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, Retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable what custom does Lakunle refer to in the above excerpt?
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A) The seduction of a maiden
B) Wrestling contests as an exercise
C) The practic of polygamy
D) The payment of bride price
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 70:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
'...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;
Tell her, red ant upon the tree;
If she passes this way, I am gone,
I am gone to load my gun
No matter how hidden deep her treasure,
By my father's coffin I swear
I'll shoot my way to it this day;
Son of the hunter King
There is liquid fire in my gun!
' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft
The beauty of this poem is built upon its
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A) rhythm
B) extended images of treasure and gun
C) the protagonist's boastfulness
D) the arrangement of the lines
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The correct answer is B .