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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1983 Literature In English Questions

Question 46:
'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of
  • A Taste
  • B Touch
  • C Sight
  • D Smell
  • E Hearing
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Question 47:
'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of
  • A Details
  • B Simple words
  • C Short sentences
  • D The past tense
  • E Puntuation.
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Question 48:
'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of
  • A Memorization
  • B Personification
  • C Simile
  • D Apostrophe
  • E Allusion
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Question 49:
Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because
  • A Social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
  • B Revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
  • C Man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
  • D Revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
  • E Animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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