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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1985 Literature In English Questions

Question 31:
A play is a Tragedy when
  • A The autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
  • B The main chracter dies before the play ends
  • C There is much blood shed in the play
  • D The main character is a wicked person
  • E A weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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Question 32:
In a work of Literature, the hero is one
  • A Whose name is mentioned the greatest number of times in the text
  • B Who is antagonistic to every one else
  • C Whose experience provide the central conflict in the work
  • D Who dies in the course of the story
  • E Who performs brave and heroic deeds.
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Question 33:
Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled?
  • A A climatic episode
  • B An impersonal dramatic piece
  • C An allusive dialogue
  • D A love story told by balled singer
  • E A poem that tells a folk story
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Question 34:
Assonance in poetry is the repetition of
  • A Internal vowels in words
  • B Stressed syllables in words
  • C Consonant sounds in words
  • D Final sounds at the end of a line
  • E Final sounds at the begining of a line.
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Question 35:
'All day long, all along the line
Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'
For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means
  • A Creativity
  • B Amusement
  • C Relaxation
  • D Restriction
  • E Freedom.
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