ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ASIAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
WHAT ARE THE 2 AIMS OF AFRICAN’S ORAL LITERATURE?
A
To gain a deep understanding of a specific organization or event.
B
To educate and entertain children.
C
to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development.
D
To remind people about their past, heroic deeds, ancestry and culture.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -WHAT ARE THE 2 AIMS OF AFRICAN’S ORAL LITERATURE? To gain a deep understanding of a specific organization or event. To educate and entertain children. to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main characteristics of all African literature include oral tradition, folktales, slave narratives, and the African novel.

Detailed explanation-3: -The African oral tradition distills the essences of human experiences, shaping them into rememberable, readily retrievable images of broad applicability with an extraordinary potential for eliciting emotional responses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Common themes include the clash between past and present, tradition and modernity, self and community, as well as politics and development.

Detailed explanation-5: -Oral literature is a term generally applied to spoken literary traditions such as folk tales, musical theater, proverbs, riddles, life histories, plays, proverbs, epic poems and historical recitations. It is kind of literature that has been recognized practically in Africa and by the Africans.

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