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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 26:
Kongi's harvest is
  • A A political drama
  • B Social comedy
  • C A play about natural rulers
  • D A historical tragedy
  • E A domestic comedy.
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Question 27:
Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses
  • A Hyperbole
  • B Metonymy
  • C Onomatopoeia
  • D Simile
  • E Apostophe
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Question 28:
'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as
  • A Complaining continually about life
  • B Unwillingness to agree and work with others.
  • C Ceaseless labour and search for challenges
  • D Dislike of one's country or home
  • E Roaming and idling.
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Question 29:
'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of
  • A Smile
  • B Onomatopeia
  • C Metaphor
  • D Archaism
  • E Metonymy
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Question 30:
In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of
  • A A particular immortal Bird
  • B All nightingales
  • C Artistic expression
  • D Philosophical statement
  • E The nightingale Ruth heard
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