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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 46:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You Kiss her on the cheek
As white people do,
You Kiss her open-sore lips
As white people do,
You suck slimy saliva
From each other's mouths,
As white people do.'
Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'
The writer of the lines above uses repetition
  • A For emphasis
  • B To underscore disapproval
  • C To enhance irony
  • D For imitation
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Question 47:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
The branch of knowledge that places emphasis on beauty is
  • A Censure
  • B Aesthetics
  • C Philosophy
  • D Philology
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Question 48:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'I cannot blind myself
to putrefying carcasses in the market place
pulling giant vultures
from the sky.
Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?
The tone of the lines above is one of
  • A Defiance
  • B Anger
  • C Mourning
  • D Anxiety
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Question 49:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
The madman has entered our house with violence
Defiling our sacred grounds
Claiming the single truth of the universe
Bending down our high priests with iron,'
Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'
The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of
  • A Coercion
  • B Religiousity
  • C Truth
  • D Persuasion
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Question 50:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'BEHOLD her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.'
The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is
  • A Abcbddee
  • B Ababccdd
  • C Abcabcdd
  • D Abcbddef
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