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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of
  • A Making us more conscious of the earth
  • B Beautifying the experience the poem describes
  • C Accusing us of human insensitivity
  • D Enhancing the imagery of the poem
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Question 17:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is
  • A A pious appeal to God
  • B About the permanence of apartheid
  • C Concerned with laundry
  • D About slave labour
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Question 18:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's
  • A Non-concern for space
  • B Willingness to take an apartment anywhere
  • C Critical need for accommodation
  • D Awareness of the reluctance ofthe landlady
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Question 19:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'Returning is not possible
And going forward is a great difficulty'
Sorrow' depict
  • A Inevitablilty of fate
  • B Coollctive failure
  • C Progress with stubbornness
  • D Individual tragedy
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Question 20:
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'
In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called
  • A Metonymy
  • B Symbol
  • C Allusion
  • D Allegory
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