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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1998 Literature In English Questions

Question 26:
This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that
  • A Life is valueless
  • B Drinking is disastrous
  • C Henchard is unpredictable
  • D Cruelty is part of life
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Question 27:
This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Hardy makes the novel realistic by
  • A Interspersing humour with seious narration
  • B Denying the characters any from of transformation
  • C Adhering strictly to autolographical facts
  • D Narrating the story in the first person
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Question 28:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Persona refers to the
  • A Central character in a play
  • B Voice of the character
  • C The image a character presents
  • D The personality of a character
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Question 29:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The three main unities in drama are those of
  • A Action, time and place
  • B Time, space and action
  • C Place, time and space
  • D Space, action and time
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Question 30:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An elegy is a poem that morns for the
  • A Deceased
  • B Beeaved
  • C Accused
  • D King
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