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This question is based on General Literary Principles
An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called
Aanagnorisis
Bperipeteia
Cpurgation
Dhubris
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Question 32
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on
Ashowing casual connection of incidents
Bthe vivid presentation of incidents
Cthe accurate presentation of incidents
Dnarrating the truth of incidents
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Question 33
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
What does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?
AHe embarks on a journey
BHe slows down the narration
CHe draws illustrative pictures
DHe becomes an artist
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Question 34
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its
Acatharsis
Bexposition
Cstructure
Dsymbol
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Question 35
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
Empathy is achieved when the audience
Afeels betrayed bythe director
Bdenounces and humiliates the protagonist
Cvicariously participates in the stage experience
Dattacks the character foil
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Question 36
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
An iambic metrical foot consists of
Aan unstressed syllable foolowing a stressed syllable
Ba stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
Can unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
Da stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable
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Question 37
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is
Aa pastoral
Ban epithalamium
Ca prothalamium
Da terza rima
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Question 38
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as
Alitterateur
Blaureattes
Cliteraria
Dliterati
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Question 39
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called
Aenjambment
Bcaesura
Capostrophe
Dscansion
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Question 40
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes
Aa long strike
BChristmas and Easter holidays
Ca long period of hard work
Da long vacation
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Question 41
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'
Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the
Arepetition of consonant sounds
Bmultiplication of medial consonant sounds
Crepetition of initial consonant sound
Dduplication of consonant sounds clusters
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Question 42
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...' Shakespeare, Othello
From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is
Adisobedient
Bquarrelsome
Cservile
Dscheming
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Question 43
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.
In the wrong skin.
Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.
The passage above expresses the state of mind of
Aan alienated man
Ban adventurer
Ca renegade soldir
Da prisoner
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Question 44
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The literary device used is
Aparallelism
Birony
Conomatopoeia
Drepetition
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Question 45
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The mood captured in the lines above is one of
Afear
Bhappiness
Cindifference
Djoy
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Question 46
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;
The speaker in the statement above is being
Asymbolical
Banalogical
Cmetaphorical
Dparabolical
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Question 47
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock
George Eliot, Silas Marner
In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a
Akind and generous friend
Bfather to everyone in the community
Cmiserly and ungracious ruler
Dquick tempered and adamant man
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Question 48
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '
Golding, Lord of the Flies.
In the passage above, the conch symbolises
Abestiality
Bauthority
Cdictatorship
Dcivilization
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Question 49
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This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of
Athe tragic demise of Odibe
Bdeath as the finality of man''s experience
Cvictory over tribulation
Dthe tragic demise of Nkem
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Question 50
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This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one
