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 901:
This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of
Options:
A) a destiny that awaits mankind
B) a bond between man and his roots
C) homesickness in city dwellers
D) kind feelings in all villagers
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 902: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as
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A) an authentic African
B) a cultural mulatto
C) sophisticated African
D) a cultured youth
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 903:
"Thou loosest labour
As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air
With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that
Options:
A) the air cannot be cut
B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 904:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza
Options:
A) an octave
B) a quatrain
C) a couplet
D) a sestet
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The correct answer is C .
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Question 905: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of
Options:
A) Peace
B) Plenty
C) Love
D) Truth
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 906:
This question is based on Literary Principles
''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..
Joseph Conrald: Nostromo
The passage above describes a troop of
Options:
A) cows
B) elephants
C) camels
D) horses
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The correct answer is D .
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Question 907: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression
Options:
A) Sestet
B) Lyric
C) Sonnet
D) Elegy.
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The correct answer is A .
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Question 908: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'From the sky suspended the strings of tattered pants marched on trembling feet under stone heavy-kits marched, on their breast scared, monogram of skulls and bones'
Ossie Enekwe:Mass for the Dead
The subject matter of the extract above is
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A) wastage
B) war
C) love
D) hatred
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 909: A funny incident within a serious situation is
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A) comedy
B) comic relief
C) tragic comedy
D) tragic hero
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The correct answer is B .
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Question 910: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A fable is a story in which
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A) allegations are made about characters
B) animals or things are used as characters
C) there is an important setting
D) the story is told in poetic form
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The correct answer is B .