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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.
In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.
The dominant literary device in the above statement is
Asimile
Bepigram
Cclimax
Danticlimax
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Question 2
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'
The literary device used in this passage is
Aantithesis
Bclimax
Cepigram
Danticlimax
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Question 3
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that
Adestruction is present in almost every action
Bnature is the sole destructive force
Canimals are the sole destructive force
Dbirds are the sole destruction force
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Question 4
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
.....Aha! Here comes Sadiku
Do you bring some balm
To soothe the smart of my misused armpit
Away, your enemy!'
What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?
AAn antiseptic ointment
BA special method of massage
CNews about Sidi
DA gourd of palm wine
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Question 5
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The time has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man Sadiku My manhood Ended near a week ago'.
In the light of subsequent happenings, these word reveal that the speaker
Aabhors polygamy
Bhas become impotent
Cis a crafty seducer
Dis disgusted with life
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Question 6
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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
A savage custom, barbaric, out-dated Rejected, denounced, accursed Excommunicated, archaic, degrading Humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, Retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable what custom does Lakunle refer to in the above excerpt?
AThe seduction of a maiden
BWrestling contests as an exercise
CThe practic of polygamy
DThe payment of bride price
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Question 7
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This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
Which of the following characters fight against vague idealism in life?
Amajor Petkoff
BCaptain Bluntschli
CCatherine
DRaina
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Question 8
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take',
'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew
The poem ends on a note of
Aindecision
Bdespair
Chope
Ddetermination
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Question 9
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.
He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'. Meridian by Alice Walker
The person described in the passage is
Aa lackadaisical person
Bunsaver
Cuninteresting
Da finicky individual
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Question 10
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob' Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The style of writing in the passage can be described as
Aintrospective
Bconfused
Cconfrontational
Dpassive
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Question 11
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.'
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind',....
'Ode- Intimations of Immorality
by William Worthsworth
The above lines convey a sense of
Adejection
Buneasy acceptance
Cdeep distress
Dnostalgia
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Question 12
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I have said too much unto a heart of stone
And laid mine honour too unchary out' Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare
The above lamentation is an example of a
Asimile
Bmetaphor
Cpersonification
Dzeugma
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Question 13
jamb1989
This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt' Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)
The literary term used for this kind of writing is
Abiography
Bautograph
Corthography
Dautobiography
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Question 14
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Hall to then, blithe spirit!
Bird thou wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!
'To A Shylark' by P.B. Shelley
The main figure of speech in the above passage is
Aapostrophe
Bhyperbole
Ceuphemism
Dmetonymy
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Question 15
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as
Adiction
Bfigures of speech
Ccharacterization
Drhythms
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Question 16
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea...'
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T.
Coleridge
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
Aparadox
Brepetition
Calliteration
Dantithesis
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Question 17
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is
Aa eulogy
Ban epic
Can epigram
Da lyric
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Question 18
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it
Atells untrue stories
Bis relevant to life
Cdeals with exciting and memorable events
Dpresents fictional accounts of human experience
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Question 19
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called
Aan anecdote
Ba parable
Ca fable
Dan exemplum
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Question 20
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
Which of the following BEST describes a ballad?
