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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2008 Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.A line or a group of lines repeated in the course of a poem is called
  • A Chorus
  • B Refrain
  • C Repetition
  • D Prologue
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Question 37:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are
  • A Anapestic
  • B Trochaic
  • C Spondaic
  • D Dactylic
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Question 38:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung is a
  • A Leich
  • B Lay
  • C Lauda
  • D Letrilla
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Question 39:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as
  • A Metanoia
  • B Metaphysical
  • C Metalanguage
  • D Metalepsis
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Question 40:
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.
'Festus lyayi:HeroesThe speaker here contends that
  • A Soldiers are generally wicked
  • B Human nature has to do with a profession
  • C Soldiers are characteristically gentle
  • D The latent brutality in man finds expression in war
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