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Jamb 1984 Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
The speaker in 'When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to
  • A To display bhis magical powers as a traditional priest
  • B Show the poetic beauty of incantatory songs
  • C Show the marvel about natural objects
  • D Practise witchcraft on his enemies
  • E Psychologically and magically disarm his enemies.
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Question 17:
'We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers' footprints on the long shores.'
The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor's 'More messenger' is
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Repetition
  • C Assonance
  • D Alliteration
  • E Consonance
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Question 18:
In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as
  • A Welcome and totally pleasant
  • B Unwelcome and unpleasant
  • C Dangerous and uninviting
  • D Seductive and threatening
  • E Beautiful and wholesome.
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Question 19:
'Clothes were like tattered flags
Flying off
To expose dangling breasts
As jaggered blinding flashes
Rumble, tremble, and crack
Amidst the smell of fired smoke
And the pelting march of the storm'
The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of
  • A Peace and quiet
  • B Contentment and calm
  • C Anger and anxiety
  • D Commotion and confusion
  • E Poverty and want
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Question 20:
In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare
  • A The supremacy of animal over man
  • B That animal shall in no way imitate human activities
  • C That man is infinitely superior
  • D That animal and men are equal
  • E That animal are inferior to humans.
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