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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1998 Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Romantic poetry emphasizes
  • A The beauty of nature
  • B Intimate relationships
  • C The love in human nature
  • D The romance in human aspirations
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Question 37:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.
Oculi, 'Orphan'
These lines illustrate the use of
  • A Sadism
  • B Sophism
  • C Satire
  • D Euphemism
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Question 38:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'One man with a head
shaven clean as a potato
whispered to the rising sun,
a red eye wiped by a tattered
handkerchief of clouds.'
Mtshali, 'Men in Chains
The figures of speech employed in the lines above are
  • A Metaphor and onomatopoeia
  • B Simile and metonymy
  • C Metaphor and simile
  • D Personification and onomatopoeia
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Question 39:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of
  • A Disgust
  • B Indignation
  • C Fear
  • D Sorrow
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Question 40:
This question is based on Literary Principles.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'
In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the
  • A Passing of time and shortness of life
  • B Swift passing of waves from shore to shore
  • C Passing of time from hours to minutes and second
  • D Movement of pebbles to the shore
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