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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1526:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation<br/>'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.<br/>My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.<br/>My poor brother in immaculate evening dress<br/>Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.<br/>Diop: The Renegade<br/>The poet's attitude here is
  • A Paradoxical
  • B Envious
  • C Ironical
  • D Sarcastic
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Question 1527:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation<br/>MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to <br/>England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.<br/>The subject matter of the passage above is the
  • A Uncritical acceptance of European values
  • B Woes of English marriage
  • C Adventures in England
  • D Intransigence of an African wife
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Question 1528:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'<br/>Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence<br/>The dominant technique in the lines above is
  • A Irony
  • B Rhyme
  • C Alliteration
  • D Metaphor
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Question 1529:
This question is based on Literary AppreciationHe was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.<br/>He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.<br/>He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.<br/>Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full<br/>The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of
  • A Ridicule
  • B Praise
  • C Hatred
  • D Admiration
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Question 1530:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'<br/>Jose Saramago: All the Names<br/>What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?
  • A She runs away
  • B She is awake
  • C She falls asleep
  • D She is dead
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