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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1121:
"Full fathom five thy father lies<br/>Of his bones are corals made<br/>Those are pearls that were his eyes<br/>Nothing of him that doth fade."<br/>The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is
  • A Baab
  • B Abab
  • C Abba
  • D Aabb
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Question 1122:
"In the cold hand of death...<br/>his mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike<br/>shrunk to a sub-soil grub<br/>his head was hallowed and his brain<br/>on scales-was this a trick to prove<br/>fore-knowledge after death?"<br/>Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of
  • A Juxtaposition
  • B Rhetoric
  • C Iambic meter
  • D Allusions
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Question 1123:
"Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly<br/>backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of<br/>their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They<br/>cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than<br/>people, she thinks for the thousandth time.No<br/>ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."<br/>Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are
  • A More radiant
  • B More colourful
  • C Less awkward
  • D Less scheming
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Question 1124:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's <br/>The Trials of Brother Jero.<br/>The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals
  • A Amope
  • B The prophet
  • C Jero's house
  • D Chume
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Question 1125:
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's <br/>The Trials of Brother Jero.<br/>'...This morning alone I have been thrice in conflict with the daughters of discord. First there was...'The omission in the conflict in the above statement from the play refers to
  • A Delila and Jezebel
  • B The girl who goes to swim everyday
  • C The woman chasing the drummer boy
  • D Chume's wife whom he owes money.
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