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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1997 Literature In English Questions

Question 31:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Point of view is a technique that is commonly associated with
  • A The narrative structure
  • B Characterization
  • C Plot
  • D Atmosphere
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Question 32:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called
  • A Stage direction
  • B Dramatic irony
  • C Setting
  • D Improvisation
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Question 33:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'
A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'
A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Zeugma
  • C Assonance
  • D Paradox
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Question 34:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,
I summon up remembrance of things past,...
Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'
The lines above contain the predominant use of
  • A A motif
  • B Irony
  • C Sarcasm
  • D Alliteration
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Question 35:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Hyperbole refers specifically to
  • A Exaggeration for adornment
  • B Exaggeration for emphasis
  • C Understatement of ideas
  • D Restatement of ideas
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