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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 41:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a
  • A Simile
  • B Denotation
  • C Connotation
  • D Metaphor
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Question 42:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'what time night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise'.
J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'
Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?
  • A Alliteration
  • B Assonance
  • C Hyperbole
  • D Onomatopoeia
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Question 43:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as
  • A Assonance
  • B Apostrophe
  • C Elegy
  • D Personification
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Question 44:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing
  • A Retrospection
  • B Flashback
  • C Historical drama
  • D Dramatic shift
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Question 45:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'I love to pass my fingers,
As tide through weeds of the sea
And wind the tall fern-fronds
Through the strands of your hair
Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'
J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'
The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is
  • A Metaphor
  • B Alliteration
  • C Rhythm
  • D Simile
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