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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2002 Literature In English Questions

Question 21:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock
George Eliot, Silas Marner
In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a
  • A Kind and generous friend
  • B Father to everyone in the community
  • C Miserly and ungracious ruler
  • D Quick tempered and adamant man
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Question 22:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;
The speaker in the statement above is being
  • A Symbolical
  • B Analogical
  • C Metaphorical
  • D Parabolical
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Question 23:
'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The mood captured in the lines above is one of
  • A Fear
  • B Happiness
  • C Indifference
  • D Joy
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Question 24:
'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The literary device used is
  • A Parallelism
  • B Irony
  • C Onomatopoeia
  • D Repetition
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Question 25:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.
In the wrong skin.
Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.
The passage above expresses the state of mind of
  • A An alienated man
  • B An adventurer
  • C A renegade soldir
  • D A prisoner
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