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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 31:
Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as
  • A A novel
  • B A tragic play
  • C An autobiography
  • D A satire
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Question 32:
'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to
  • A A ployman and the herd
  • B The rich people of the village
  • C The congregation of the church
  • D The politicians
  • E All those buried in the graveyard
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Question 33:
As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was
  • A Worthwhile
  • B Uncertain
  • C Foolish
  • D Wise
  • E Commendable.
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Question 34:
The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves...'
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is
  • A Oxymoron
  • B Personification
  • C Metaphor
  • D Simile
  • E Synecocdoche.
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Question 35:
In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet
  • A Warns about the danger of elephants
  • B Tells the story of Elephants
  • C Describes the attributes of the elephants
  • D Shows where to find elephants
  • E Wants the destructions of elephants
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