One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist
Answer
(C)
W. Soyinka
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A narrative poem must
Answer
(B)
tell a story
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Literature is studied as a subject at school because
Answer
(A)
it exposes students to the realities of life
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In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as
Answer
(A)
alliteration
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If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is
Answer
(B)
a piece of writing telling us about the Life of its author
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You cannot know
And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother
In this verse the poet uses
Answer
(A)
alternate rhymes
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Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of
Answer
(C)
fish
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Pick out the odd item
Answer
(D)
The Concubine
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That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____
Answer
(B)
sadness
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One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy
Answer
(A)
climax
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A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is
Answer
(C)
villain
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The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is
Answer
(B)
rhythm
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A hero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?
Answer
(C)
Tragic hero
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A travelogue is
Answer
(A)
a record of the writer's experience during a journey
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A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......
Answer
(A)
a satire
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The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is
Answer
(B)
a copyright
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Empathy is achieved when the audience
Answer
(B)
vicariously participates in the stage experience
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Mock-heroic poetry elevates
Answer
(B)
trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
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...... is also called a dynamic character
Answer
(B)
Round character
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The subject matter of a literary work is the
Answer
(C)
theme
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A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called
Answer
(A)
lampoon
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"A time to sow,
A time to reap,
A time to born,
A time to die"
This exemplies the use of ...
Answer
(C)
anaphora
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'I am jealous and passonate
Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is
Answer
(A)
simile
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Dramatis personae in a play refers to
Answer
(B)
list of characters
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An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.
Answer
(B)
peripeteia
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"I hate brave cowards like you" is an example of
Answer
(D)
Oxymoron
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The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
Answer
(B)
participatory narrator
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"Rays of sun peeping through the cloud ", the line is an example of
Answer
(D)
Personification
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'To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
- William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
Answer
(A)
metaphor
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"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a
