SAMPLES QUESTIONS

QUESTION(1)

 Why literature is said to be the work of art?

Art is an imaginative skills that appeals to human taste, it is the creation or expression of beauty

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art is man`s expression of his suffering and joyfulness in labour. Literature is said to be the work of art because it uses variety of artistic skills so as to reflect social realities or to convey messages. These artistic skills includes

The creation of title, refer to a name of the book, always we say the title of the literary work reflects what is inside the book. Therefore the creation of title and thus to resemble with the content inside the book is an artistic skills (form).

The creation of setting; in simple terms, setting is the time, place and social reality within which a story takes place. It can be a geographical setting to show actual environment or place of events, or time setting/historical setting (it answers the question in which period), social setting- which explain on the prevailing situation usually the main theme of the story. Setting is used to drive the home message

The creative use of language; when language used artistically or creatively is what we call it literature, artistic use of language in literature involves the use of variety of figures of speech like metaphor, personification, effective imagery and symbolism.

The use and creation of character; the character are created in such a way that they represents the true human traits both positive and negative.

The use of various styles such as flashback, foreshadowing, narrative style, point of view, oral traditional style, straight forward style etc.

QUESTION (2)

With vivid examples explain clearly roles of literature in your society.

FUNCTIONS/ROLES OF LITERATURE

i.                    Literature is used to develop human language.

ii.                  To criticize some evils in the societies

iii.                To entertain people in the society i.e. through songs, poetry, proverbs, saying, jokes etc. iv. To express peoples culture v.

iv.                To educate people in the society as we get messages

v.                  To influence people in the society.

vi.                To liberate people in the society, it liberates people mentally and physically.

Q) Differentiate between play and novels

Q)With examples explain the roles of literature in your  society

Q) with examples of any book that you have rad in class explains elements of literature