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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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Literature In English Questions

Question 1891:
These questions are based on general Literary principles<br/>The plot of a story generally refers to the
  • A Intrigue made by a character against the hero
  • B Way in which the events of the story are organized
  • C Way in which the writer begin the story
  • D Way the writer ends the story
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Question 1892:
These questions are based on general Literary principles<br/>The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is
  • A Trochaic decametre
  • B Iambic pentametre
  • C Anapestic metre
  • D Dactylic metre
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Question 1893:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.<br/>Theseus:<br/>now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour Draw on space for happy day bring in Another moon. But, O, me thinks how slow.The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,Like to a step-drama or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.<br/>William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.<br/>The literary device used in the excerpt above are
  • A Personification and simile
  • B Alliteration and synechdocheand
  • C Rhyme and refrain
  • D Irony and suspense
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Question 1894:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.<br/>'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder<br/>You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'<br/>Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code<br/>The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of
  • A Repetition and meiosis
  • B Caesura and hyperbole
  • C Alliteration and irony
  • D Metaphor and rhyme
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Question 1895:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.<br/>'It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.'<br/>Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.<br/>In the excerpt above,the subject's experience in the lift is
  • A Timely
  • B Unpleasant
  • C Amusing
  • D Comfortable
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