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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1985 Literature In English Questions

Question 31:
What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its
  • A Emotion and feeling
  • B Ungrammatical expressions
  • C Irony and paradox
  • D Rhyme and verse
  • E Rhyme and metaphor.
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Question 32:
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 33:
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 34:
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 35:
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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