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 841: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.In the play, Mercutio can be described as
Options:
A) fraudulent
B) gentle
C) kind-hearted
D) quarellsome
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 842:
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The style of writing in the passage can be described as
Options:
A) introspective
B) confused
C) confrontational
D) passive
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 843:
The withdrawal of rest from man according to George Herbert in 'The Pulley' is particularly because_____
Options:
A) man by nature has the tendencies to be lazy
B) of the need for human survival
C) God wants man to feel less of himself
D) of the space for God's worship
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 844: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.In the play, social change is achieved through
Options:
A) collectivism
B) sectionalism
C) individual
D) communism
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 845: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllables are written in capital lettersJudiciary
Options:
A) judiciaRY
B) JUdiciary
C) judiCIAry
D) juDIciary
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 846:
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a
Options:
A) renegade
B) leper
C) foreigner
D) desperado
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 847:
"A time to sow,
A time to reap,
A time to born,
A time to die"
This exemplies the use of ...
Options:
A) anadiplosis
B) chiasmus
C) anaphora
D) hendiadys
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 848:
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the
Options:
A) childhood fun
B) only set in a crown of thorns
C) gory details
D) wicked sappor
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 849: 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.The experts, of course Disagree The urine test they ordered Said, Negative.'The lines above from Acqah's In the Navel of the Soul depict
Options:
A) contradiction
B) inevitability
C) progress
D) awareness
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 850:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
The madman has entered our house with violence
Defiling our sacred grounds
Claiming the single truth of the universe
Bending down our high priests with iron,'
Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'
The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of
Options:
A) coercion
B) religiousity
C) truth
D) persuasion
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The correct answer is A .