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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1366:
This question is based on Literary Principles.<br/>LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):<br/>Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.<br/>LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?<br/>WILLY: No, nothing happened.<br/>Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman<br/>Linda's words above express a feeling of
  • A Darkness and horror
  • B Fear and sadness
  • C Fear and anxiety
  • D Suspicion and shock
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Question 1367:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation<br/>'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm! <br/>Life and desire and dreams and death<br/>Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea, <br/>The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of
  • A Personification
  • B Praise
  • C Symbolism
  • D Apostrophe
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Question 1368:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/>'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.<br/>I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'<br/>Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.<br/>The reaction in the passage above is that of
  • A Rejection
  • B Anger
  • C Protest
  • D Nausea
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Question 1369:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/>'CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle,<br/>CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.<br/>BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next.<br/>sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy when you've abandoned it for some time...<br/>Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.<br/>The literary devices in the dialogue above are
  • A Humour and irony
  • B Allusion and paradox
  • C Irony and parody
  • D Hypperbole and allusion
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Question 1370:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.<br/>'For seven days it rained that June;<br/>A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'John Updike, Wash<br/>The images set in the lines above are of
  • A The days of Noah
  • B Rain and flood in June
  • C Discomfort and likely destruction
  • D An animal, insects and fun
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