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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1993 Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When words or phrases in either poetry or prose rise and fall measuredly, it is said that they
  • A Have a regular rhythm
  • B Rhyme
  • C Are accented and unaccented
  • D Are well structured
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Question 37:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The ode and the elegy are examples of
  • A Sonnet
  • B Lyrical poetry
  • C Narrative poetry
  • D Blank verse
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Question 38:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A play that tells a single story, has one setting and takes place within a specified period is said to
  • A Be heavilymoralistic
  • B Be clearly cohesive
  • C Possess the unities
  • D Have tragic elements
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Question 39:
This question is based on General Literary Principles. With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth,'
John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The above lines are an example of
  • A Tautology
  • B Comic relief
  • C Euphemism
  • D Consonance
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Question 40:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Still stand stubborn
To stones that strangle the dawn,
Still stand stubborn
To stones that maim the morn,
still stand stubborn
To stones that assail the sun'
Atukwei Okai, 'Sunset Sonata'
The dominant literary device employed in the above passage is
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Repetition
  • C Metonymy
  • D Alliteration
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