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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1983 Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
A novel is
  • A A long prose narrative fiction
  • B An interesting story about a hero
  • C A prose writings that deals with various people
  • D A long story in which homan characters represents abstract qualities
  • E A prose writing about the lives of great and interesting people.
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Question 37:
Identify the odd item in the following list
  • A Prose
  • B Poetry
  • C Melodrama
  • D Catastrophe
  • E Drama.
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Question 38:
'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death'.
Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?
  • A Eddie Iroh
  • B Onuora Nzukwu
  • C Cyprian Ekwensi
  • D Elechi Amadi
  • E Chinua Achebe
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Question 39:
'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.
It is obvious from this passage that Simi is
  • A Famous for her love of children
  • B A goddess worshipped by children, women and men
  • C A woman other women like to befriend
  • D An alluring, irresistible man-snatcher
  • E Disliked for teaching sex-education.
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Question 40:
The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Assonance
  • C Alliteration
  • D Rhyme
  • E Phonetics.
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