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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which
Athe serious is treated in a satirical way
Bsubordination of characterization to plot occurs
Cmusic and dance predominate
Devil triumphs over good
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Question 12
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by
Acircumlocution
Birony
Cproverb
Dparable
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Question 13
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Point of denouement in a literary work is the
Apoint at which the major character is shown in his true colours
Bpoint of disagreement in a narrative
Cpoint of the resolution of the puzzling issues
Dcathartic point in a tragedy
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Question 14
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is
Aparadox
Bprosody
Cpun
Dparody
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Question 15
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
In a narration, the first person is
Athe author
Ba participant
Cthe publisher
Dan observer
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Question 16
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is
Aa copyright
Ban authority to write
Can author's right
Da constitional provision
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Question 17
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The setting in pastoral poetry is usually
Aoceanic
Burban
Cencumenical
Didyllic
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Question 18
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of
Aaudiences
Bspeeches
Cactions
Dcharacters
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Question 19
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is
Aconceit
Bcontrast
Ccouplet
Ddiatribe
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Question 20
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This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
A dramatic composition or musical play in which many or all the words are sung is called
Aan oratorio
Ba motet
Can opera
Da concert
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Question 21
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation Be him English
Be him African
Be him Nigerian
The lines above are an example of
Aepitaph
Banaphora
Ctautology
Depigram
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Question 22
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation 'I am alone
And the murmur of my lips
Carry song and tears homewards
From a plain away from home
Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola
The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of
Aelation
Banger
Cnostaglgia
Dsorrow
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Question 23
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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'
Jose Saramago: All the Names
What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?
Ashe runs away
Bshe is awake
Cshe falls asleep
Dshe is dead
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Question 24
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.
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.
He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.
Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full
The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of
Aridicule
Bpraise
Chatred
Dadmiration
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Question 25
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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'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence
The dominant technique in the lines above is
Airony
Brhyme
Calliteration
Dmetaphor
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Question 26
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to
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.
The subject matter of the passage above is the
Auncritical acceptance of European values
Bwoes of English marriage
Cadventures in England
Dintransigence of an African wife
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Question 27
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.
My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.
My poor brother in immaculate evening dress
Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.
Diop: The Renegade
The poet's attitude here is
Aparadoxical
Benvious
Cironical
Dsarcastic
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Question 28
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'
Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is
Amythical
Bbiblical
Chistorical
Dclassical
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Question 29
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'
Gabriel Okara: The Voice
it can be inferred from the passage above that the
Alistener is a porter
Blistener is wise
Cspeaker is a murderer
Dspeaker is more experienced
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Question 30
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation 'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'
Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles
The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is
