Jamb 1987 Literature In English Questions
Question 41:
She said you just had to make an emotional commitment in marriage. It was like skiing, you could not see in advance what would happen but you had to let go. Maybe that was why I failed, because I didn't know what I had to let go of. For me it hadn't been like skiing, it was more like jumping off a cliff. That was the feeling I had all the time I was married, in the air, going down, waiting for the smash at the bottom.
The passage indicates that the author's experience in marriage was
- A Exhilarating like skiing
- B Steeped in boredom and monotony
- C Full of fear of the unknown
- D Fraught with grief and despair
Question 42:
An ode is best described as a
- A Story told in poetic from
- B Poetic composition of fourteen lines
- C Narration about nature and natural objects
- D Lyrical poem addressed to some persons things
Question 43:
Alliteration is
- A The use of figures of speech to achieve poetic effect
- B The repetition of two or more words having the same initial consonant sound
- C Usually employed to set the scene for a conflict
- D All of the above
Question 44:
An allegory is a story
- A In which people or things or events have another meaning
- B Which aims at teaching a moral lesson
- C In which allegations are made about the characters
- D Told in verse
Question 45:
A couplet is a
- A Succession of three rhyming lines
- B Succession of two rhyming lines
- C Poem of two stanzas
- D Poem of three stanzas