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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1391:
This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.<br/>Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of
  • A Death and disappointment
  • B Appearance and reality
  • C Life and disappointment
  • D Love and death
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Question 1392:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse. <br/>In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by
  • A Repetition
  • B Double rhymes
  • C Assonance
  • D End rhymes
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Question 1393:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse. <br/>The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza
  • A An octave
  • B A quatrain
  • C A couplet
  • D A sestet
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Question 1394:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse. <br/>' ... In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?' <br/>In Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn', the recurrent use of the rhetorical question in the lines above suggests
  • A Admiration and amazement
  • B Confusion and fear
  • C Shock and surprie
  • D Worry and sadness
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Question 1395:
This question is based on General Literary Principles<br/>The most important concepts in poetry are
  • A Story and action
  • B Plot and rhythm
  • C Rhythm and imagery
  • D Plot and character
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