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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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
  • A Old age
  • B Childhood innocence
  • C Beauty of the rainbow
  • D Fatherhood
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Question 47:
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
  • A Personification
  • B Oxymoron
  • C Metonymy
  • D Paradox
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Question 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
  • A Assonance
  • B Dissonance
  • C Slapstick
  • D Alliteration
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Question 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
  • A Jealous of rich and influential people
  • B Overwhelmed by the power of money
  • C Contemptuous of the poor
  • D Indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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Question 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
  • A Assonance
  • B Onomatopeia
  • C Alliteration
  • D Consonance
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