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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1596:
This question is based on General Literary Principles<br/>When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becauses
  • A An irony
  • B A symbol
  • C A subject
  • D An epigram
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Question 1597:
This question is based on General Literary Principles<br/>Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place
  • A Simultaneously
  • B Intermittently
  • C In a single revolution of the sun
  • D Within the same locale
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Question 1598:
This question is based on General Literary Principles<br/>A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is
  • A Hyperbole
  • B Limerick
  • C Tercet
  • D Wit
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Question 1599:
This question is based on Literary Principles'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?<br/>Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's<br/>The literary device used in the excerpt above is
  • A Apostrophe
  • B Rhetorical question
  • C Pun
  • D Run-on-line
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Question 1600:
This question is based on Literary Principles<br/>''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.<br/>W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening<br/>The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is
  • A Cbba cdda
  • B Bbac ddac
  • C Ddca bbca
  • D Abbc addc
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