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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1978 Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
Another shoal of cars swam past.One in particular caught his eye,a long slender thing,elegant as a swallow,all gleaming blue and silver,a thousand guineas it would have cost,he tought.
In the first sentence,cars are described in terms of
  • A Birds
  • B Ants
  • C Fish
  • D Lamp-posts
  • E Pretty girls
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Question 17:
Point out the odd item:
  • A Raisin in the sun
  • B Twelfth Night
  • C Ozidi
  • D The Concubine
  • E Romeo and Juliet
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Question 18:
An image in poetry usually gives a clue to one of the following:
  • A Rhyme
  • B Assonance
  • C Paradox
  • D Theme
  • E Refrain
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Question 19:
'That year the harvest was sad,like a funeral,and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams.One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself'. The mood conveyed here is one of
  • A Excitement
  • B Sadness
  • C Joy
  • D Triumph
  • E Elation
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Question 20:
One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy:
  • A Climax
  • B Happy ending
  • C Tragic hero
  • D Alliteration
  • E Stanza
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