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1. an indirect representation is
Questions 1 to 10 are based on General Principles of Literature
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2. A theatre of irrationality and extreme laughter is known as
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3. The longest form of fiction is
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4. Which of the following is not an element of satire?
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5. The tone of an epic is
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6. The narrative technique in which the inner thoughts of the character are brought to the fore is known as
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7. Novel that educates about character's development and growth is known as
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8. A rhetorical device of alluding to something and denying that it will be mentioned is known as
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9. The resolution of conflict in a play is
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10. Catharsis is an element of tragedy
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11. The dominant device in the extract is
Questions 11 to 20 are based on Literary Appreciation. Use the extract below to answer questions 11 to 13.
"We have all lived in joy These eleven years And Kutuje has prospered But joy has a slender body that breaks too soon. There is trouble now in the land Joy has broken and scattered. Peace, too, is no more." (From Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame)
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12. It can be deduced from the extract that joy is
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13. "Joy has broken and scattered" is also an example of
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14. "Wall of flagellation to the South Strokes of justice slice a festive air- It is the day of reckoning" (From Wole Soyinka's "Purgatory") The last line of the extract indicates the use of
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15. The expression "Our leaders love us and therefore kill us" is
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16. The tone of the extract is
Use the extract below to answer questions 16 and 17. "You are a leader, a good leader in deed that people rejected you You are a leader, a good leader in deed and that is why you failed You are a leader, a good leader in deed and your dream died buried in you."
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17. The expression is illustrative of
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18. "D-d-during my ch-ch-childhood, I wwwas fond of swallowing e-e-e-cobbles. Now when I hic...cups they rrrush to my threat, and c-c- can't speak" The speaker in the above extract is
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19. The language of the poem is characteristic of a/an
Use the extract below to answer questions 19 and 20. "Woman's hair shall be the blanket over my coffin when another Artist calls me to Heaven to paint me Woman's breasts shall be my pillow Woman's eye shall open up for me the way to Heaven Woman's belly shall give birth to me up there and woman's glance shall watch me as I go up to Heaven." (From "Woman" by Arthur Nortje)
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20. The reiteration of the word "woman" the theme of the poem.
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21. The plot of the novel is
Questions 21 to 23 are based on Faceless by Ama Darko.
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22. The octogenarian whose father shook hands with Gordon Guggisberg during the colonial era is
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23. Which of the following is not a theme in the
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24. The last time that cap picking ceremony was --------years ago
Questions 24 to 26 are based on Lonely days Baye Adebowale.
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25. Whose cap represents abundance and surplus
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26. The language of the novel could be describe as
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27. Which of the following does not dese import of Madman in the play?
Questions 27 to 29 are based on Harven Corruption by Frank Ogodo Ogbeche.
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28. Which character is a foil to Ogeyi in the play?
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29. The catastrophe in the play is
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30. The theme of racism is -------- in the play
Questions 30 to 32 are based on Othello William Shakespeare.
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31. Othello -------- Desdemona to death.
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32. The characters of Othello, lago, Cassio and Desdemona in the play are
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33. The poem "The Pulley" by George Herbeta be described as metaphysical because of
Questions 33 to 40 are based on selected poems
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34. Which of the following is not characteristic l School Boy" by William Blake?
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35. "Vanity" by Birago Diop is replete with ------
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36. The poem "The Dining Table" by Gbana Hallowell starts on a/an --------- note.
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37. The dominant figure of speech in G Adeoti's "Ambush" is ---------
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38. The poet in "Crossing the Bar" sees death as ------
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39. According Lenrie Peter's "The Panic of Gro Older", at twenty --------
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40 Gabriel Okara's "Piano and Drums" and Kofi Awoonor's "The Anvil and the Hammer" agree on the following except ---------
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41. Which of the following is not an element of plot?
QUESTIONS 41 to 50 are based on questions on General Knowledge of Literature.
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42. The epilogue in a play refers to the
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44. Which of the following is not a form of poetic expression?
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45. Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary
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46. The literary device that uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as
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47. Purgation of emotion is associated with
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48. Which of the following is a metrical pattern in which two unstressed syllables precede a stressed syllable ?
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49. In the first-person point of view, the narrator is
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50. Shakespearean sonnet has a rhyming pattern of
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