Jamb 1988 Literature In English Questions
Question 46:
This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!And I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety'. My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.The above poem essentially deals with the theme of
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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!And I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety'. My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.'The child is father of the Man' is an example of
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 48:
This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.Time out of mindthe going was easybecause of oil boom we glutted and plotted,as mad as a hatter'. The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 49:
This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.à am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?The writer of the above passage is
View Answer & ExplanationQuestion 50:
This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.Hark, Hark!Bow-WowThe watch dogs bark!Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hearThe strain of the struting chanticleerCry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of
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