This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's
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(A)
anger
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet 'Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shoot and danger of danger of desire.
The Chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.
In the excerpt above, Laertes warns Ophelia to beware of Hamlet's attentions because
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(D)
the sincerity of his love is in doubt
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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet But, O, what from of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects for which I did the murder
Those effects which Claudius is still possessed of from the excerpt above are
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(C)
the crown and the queen
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This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Abbas' money which is stone from his bag is
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(B)
his inheritance from his father
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This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
The play is about
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(A)
resistance to British administration
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This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Characterization in the play comprises three major groups of
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(B)
court officeials, British soldiers and beggars
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This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
How does Lugard describe the battle between the white man and the Sokoto Caliphate?
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(A)
One between superior and inferior powers
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This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man?
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(A)
Caliph should go into exile
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
One thing that Angel Clare hates most is
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(C)
Cambridge education
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare?
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(A)
At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles. Tess of the d'Urbrvilles is an interrogation of the Victorian period's
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(C)
ideas about women
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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
Mrs.Joan Durbeyfield is portrayed as
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(D)
fastidious and overbearing
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When do Ayo and his mother stop begging for alms?
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(C)
As soon as his mother starts kickiung against it.
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The novel is remarkable for the author's use of
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(D)
suspense and irony
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This question is based on Ademiluyi's The New Man.
The metamorphosis that takes place in the novel is manly due to
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(C)
love and affection
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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
The outdooring ceremony of Araba's child, fixed for the fifth day after his birth, is opposed to by Naana because the child
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(B)
is still in the custody of the spirits
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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
It can be safely assumed that the novel is
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(D)
physically revlevant
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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
In the novel, the most prominent from of literature used is
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(B)
drama
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This question is based on selection poem 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 The person in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young addressed the dead athlete using
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(A)
monologue
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This question is based on selection poem 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 Keats' On the Grasshopper and Cricket, the frost of winter evenings is said to cause
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(B)
luxury
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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 Milton's On His Blindness, the poet's attitude towards his blindness is one of
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(C)
fortitude
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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 Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its
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(C)
olfactory image
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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
The use of enjambment in Cheney-Coker's Myopia emphasizes the
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(C)
distressed mood of the persona
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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
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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
The concern of the poet in Serenade is to
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(B)
appeal to the lady in question
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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
The poet persona in Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is
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(A)
optimistic
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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 Odia Ofeimuun's We must Learn Again to Fly, the use of 'we' gives the poem a
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(A)
universal appeal
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is
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(B)
a stock character
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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 Clark's Agbor Dancer, the the poet watches the dancer with
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(C)
nostalgia
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This question is based on General Literary Principles Monometer is a
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(D)
line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
Zeugma is a figurative device in which a
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(C)
verb refers to two parts of an expression
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This question is based on General Literary Principles Chanson is a term denoting a
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(C)
song from the Middle Ages
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The part of a play when climax approaches is known as
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(D)
catastasis
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
Black theater is drama concerned with
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(C)
the identity of black Americans
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This question is based on General Literary Principles Which of the following forms of poetry is an example of a monologue?
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(A)
Lament
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called
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(C)
envoi
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This question is based on General Literary Principles That quality in a literary work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is
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(B)
pathos
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge in a character is know as
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(B)
anagnorisis
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
If I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice...
Ismeal Heron:Pardon me.
The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of
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(B)
anaphora
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of
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(A)
quatrain and imagery
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
I will pronounce your name, Obi, I will declaim you, Obi!The device used in the line above is
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(A)
repetition
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being
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(A)
paradoxical
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is
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(B)
indifferent
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is
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(A)
bereaved
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This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
Cliph...Son. Open all your ears. May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands..Now the rest is my burden. I am willing to accept Allah's will in the matter.The Language of the speaker above is