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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2011 Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
These questions are based on general Literary principles
A character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is
  • A Round character
  • B Stock character
  • C Static character
  • D Flat character
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Question 37:
These questions are based on general Literary principles
The plot of a story generally refers to the
  • A Intrigue made by a character against the hero
  • B Way in which the events of the story are organized
  • C Way in which the writer begin the story
  • D Way the writer ends the story
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Question 38:
These questions are based on general Literary principles
The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is
  • A Trochaic decametre
  • B Iambic pentametre
  • C Anapestic metre
  • D Dactylic metre
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Question 39:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.
Theseus:
now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour Draw on space for happy day bring in Another moon. But, O, me thinks how slow.The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,Like to a step-drama or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The literary device used in the excerpt above are
  • A Personification and simile
  • B Alliteration and synechdocheand
  • C Rhyme and refrain
  • D Irony and suspense
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Question 40:
These question are based on literary Appreciation.
'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder
You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code
The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of
  • A Repetition and meiosis
  • B Caesura and hyperbole
  • C Alliteration and irony
  • D Metaphor and rhyme
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