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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 31:
'...A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.'
In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates
  • A Living according to nature
  • B The spirit of communal living
  • C The ancestral spirit
  • D The virtures of self reliance
  • E Traditional festivals
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Question 32:
We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.
In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to
  • A Obierika
  • B Okoli
  • C Odukwe
  • D Okonkwo
  • E Ezenwa.
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Question 33:
A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as
  • A Paradoxial
  • B Metaphysical
  • C Logical
  • D Rhetorical
  • E Leading
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Question 34:
Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as
  • A Apostrophe
  • B Personification
  • C Denotation
  • D Allusion
  • E Imitation
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Question 35:
A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an
  • A Epithet
  • B Epigram
  • C Invective
  • D Impression
  • E Analogy
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