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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 1999 Literature In English Questions

Question 21:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The Owl is used by Ojaide in this poem as a
  • A Metaphor
  • B Symbol
  • C Simile
  • D Satire
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Question 22:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a
  • A Lamentation over a dead friend
  • B Lamentation over the passing of life
  • C Reflection on the passing of life
  • D Reflection on nature
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Question 23:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The Duke's precious gift to the Duchess in Browning's 'My Last Duchess 'is
  • A His family name
  • B A wedding ring
  • C His aristocratic class
  • D The title of a Duchess
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Question 24:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is
  • A A snob
  • B A coquette
  • C A spendthrift
  • D Disrespectful
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Question 25:
This question is based on General Literary Principles
'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'.
The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is
  • A An ode
  • B Allusion
  • C Apostrophe
  • D Dramatic
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