This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as
Answer
(B)
allegory
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Characterization in a novel refers to the
Answer
(B)
way the characters are revealed to the reader
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In literary work, verbal irony refers to a
Answer
(A)
device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called
Answer
(A)
aside
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of
Answer
(C)
speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as
Answer
(C)
metre
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A literary genre which directly imitates human action is
Answer
(A)
drama
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A fable is a story in which
Answer
(B)
animals or things are used as characters
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is
Answer
(D)
oxymoron
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The main aim of caricature is to
Answer
(D)
ridicule
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration
The figure of speech in the lines above is
Answer
(D)
apostrophe
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"What eyes will watch our large mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?"
Birage Diop:Vanity
The tone of the lines above is one of
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(A)
sarcasm
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
The old man slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap
The rhyme scheme of the poem above is
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(B)
aabb
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That board, and sleep, and feed....
The lines above show that the speaker
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(A)
detects discrimination
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
....How can i look at Oyo and say i
hate long shiny cars? How can i
come to the children and despise
international schools?
And Koomson comes, and the
family sees Jesus Christ in him....
The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of
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(D)
despair
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"
Wole Soyinka:Night
Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of
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(D)
spirit beings
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"Serrated shadows, through dark leaves
Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your
dapped cells
Sensation pained me, faceless, silent
as night thieves." Wole Soyinka: Night
The dominant mood in the lines above is one of
Answer
(A)
apprehension
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"The drums overwhelmed the guns..."
J.P Clark: Casualties
The poet in the excerpt above uses
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(B)
symbolism
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
....They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests..."
J.P. Clark:Casualties
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through
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(B)
personification
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"I cannot rest from travel: I will
drink
Life to the lees, all times I have
enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly"
A.L. Tennyson:Ulysses
The lines above inform the reader that the poet
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(B)
has his poetic imagination kindled
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Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:
Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?
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(C)
Fosuwa
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Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:
From the play, George is a
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(D)
medical doctor
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"If you touch me,I shall smash your face with this bottle"
Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters,The statement above is made by
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(A)
Manaan to lawyer B
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"If you touch me, I shall smash your face with this bottle"
Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters, the issue at stake is that
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(B)
Lawyer B is trying to kiss Maanan
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"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..."
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play
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(A)
could have been averted
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"O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
A rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear."
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the lines above, Juliet's beauty is presented
Answer
(D)
as being outstanding
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"The all seeing sun
Ne'er saw match since first the world begun."
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
The lines above were spoken by
Answer
(A)
Count Paris in praise of Juliet
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Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
The major role of Mercutio in the play is to
Answer
(C)
aid and abet Romeo's passion
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Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of
Answer
(A)
violence on stage
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"Meka, kneeling down in his usual fashion with his behind up in the air.
Kelara knelt down beside him.
Amalia and her husband knelt down as well."
Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the actions of Meka, Kelara, Amalia and her husband signify
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(D)
celebration
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"He had knocked his toes against so many things that he had no toenails anymore and the yaws he had suffered from his youth had twisted his toes up so that they pointed to the sky"
Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal,the description above is in reference to the foot of
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(B)
Meka
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"They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,
kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels
waiting to be loaded."
Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above
Answer
(B)
simile
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Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood,
As a symbol of marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on
Answer
(A)
childbirth
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Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to
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(D)
allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
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Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood,
The little money Nnaife makes after returning from Fernando PO is used for
Answer
(D)
getting more wives
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
The novel is mainly classified as a
Answer
(C)
satire
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Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, Winston writes that the hope of the country lies on the
Answer
(B)
proles
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Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, two minutes hate is a programme designed for
Answer
(B)
thought police
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Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, To drop his philosophy of life and imbibe the tenets of the party, Winston is subjected to all forms of torture and inhuman treatment by
Answer
(C)
Big Brother
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These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The movement in Adeoti's Naked Soles is characterized by
Answer
(B)
freedom and self-determination
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These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
One of the dominant themes if Rubadin's An African Thunderstorm is the
Answer
(A)
relationship between man and woman
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These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, the weapons are to be preserved for the generation yet unborn by the
Answer
(B)
elders
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These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
Give Me The Minstrel's Seat ends on a clarion call for
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(A)
freedom
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These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
"...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning due..."
The excerpt above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
Answer
(A)
simile
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These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
