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 General Literary Principles.
Flash back in a literary work help to
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A) fill the missing link
B) reveal the characters'mindsets
C) place the story in proper perspective
D) relate events that are extraneous to the story
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 62:
This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.
The character of Marshal in the play shows that
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A) human beings are selfless
B) human beings are the same
C) men love women
D) human beings love power
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 63:
This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child
The most important objects in the hut are the
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A) prayer-rugs
B) implements used in the workshop
C) tool-boxes o Camara's father
D) pcts containng the magic charms
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 64:
This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.
"To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are
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A) alliteration and personification
B) onomatopoeia and simile
C) metaphor and alliteration
D) simile and personification
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 65: "....checking the coins against the tickets, he began to count the morning's take. It was mostly what he expected at this time of the month: small coins, a lot of pesewas,..."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,what time of the month is being referred to in the above statement from the novel?
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A) Passion week
B) Passover week
C) Pay day
D) Rainy day
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 66:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the
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A) relieveing effect of the song on the reaper's
B) enduring impact of the reaper's song
C) sweetest human voice of the poet ever heard
D) similarity between the voice of the reaper and the cuckoo-bird
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 67:
This question is based on Literary Principles
'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses
The tone of the poem above is
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A) optimistic
B) interrogative
C) persuasive
D) pessimistic
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 68:
This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.
The dominant images in 'She Came in Silken Drapes' are
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A) reverence
B) contempt
C) indifference
D) awe
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 69:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
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A) subjective narrator
B) objective narrator
C) omniscient narrator
D) participatory narrator
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 70: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionIt can be deduced from the play that
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A) drug pushing is lucrative
B) no crime will go unpunished
C) the wealthy also cry
D) people will always complain
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The correct answer is B .