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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1997 Literature In English Questions

Question 41:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a protagonist is purged of the dominant emotions of pity and fear at the end of a tragedy, it is called
  • A Catharsis
  • B Dementia
  • C Purgation
  • D Redemption
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Question 42:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a statement is made on stage to the hearing of only the audience, it is called
  • A A prologue
  • B A soliloquy
  • C An aside
  • D A diatribe
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Question 43:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed
  • A Deus ex machina
  • B Dramatis personae
  • C Contrived manipulation
  • D Dramatic reversals
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Question 44:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The Christs
are still in performing miracles
in the market places
heroding the masses with imperatives
feeding the hungry
with 21-gun salutes
for victories that are yet to be won.'
Odia Ofeimun, 'The Messiahs'
The attitude of the poet to his subject in the lines above is
  • A Ironic
  • B Sarcastic
  • C Benevolent
  • D Explosive
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Question 45:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra Davis telling her this. Not just a wife, not just a mother - as Nessa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childhood were and were expected to be; cooks and floor scrubbers, fanatical table polishers and chairback starchers, nest builders.
Georgina Hammick, 'Habits'
In the passage above, it can be inferred that Otto's wife
  • A Scrubbed floors and polished tables like the other women
  • B Was a potter and was thereforespared other domestic jobs
  • C Was a potter like Nessa's mother
  • D Was a potter in addition to being a wife andmother
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