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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 16:
Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of
  • A Peace
  • B Plenty
  • C Love
  • D Truth
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Question 17:
These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE. The dominant poetic technique employed in Adeoti's Naked Soles is
  • A Hyperbole
  • B Onomatopoeia
  • C Zeugma
  • D Oxymoron
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Question 18:
These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE. Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm can be described as
  • A Traditional
  • B Satiritical
  • C Didactic
  • D Dramatic
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Question 19:
These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE. 'Since it was you who in all these thin seasons." The device employed in the line above from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, is an example of
  • A Anecdote
  • B Aside
  • C Apostrophe
  • D Allusion
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Question 20:
These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE. "Let me ask for what reason or rhyme women refuse to marry? Woman cannot exist except by man, what is there in that to vex some of them so? The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of
  • A Ironical statement
  • B Rhetorical question
  • C Pathetic fallacy
  • D Chiasmus
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