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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. "Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's Fluorescence, dance on the pulse incessant. Wole Soyinka:Night The lines above suggests that women are
  • A Dogmatic
  • B Seers
  • C Magicians
  • D Covetous
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Question 37:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. "Busy old fool Unruly sun Why dost thou thus Through windows And through curtains Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun Rising The excerpts above suggests
  • A Welcoming the sun
  • B Indictment of the sun
  • C Praise of nature
  • D Invitation to the sun
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Question 38:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. "Busy old fool Unruly sun Why dost thou thus Through windows And through curtains Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun Rising The figure of speech involved in the lines above is
  • A Epigram
  • B Pun
  • C Simile
  • D Personification
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Question 39:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. Will no one tell me what she sings perhaps the plaintive numbers flow for old, unhappy, far off things And battles long ago. Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? The lines above shows that the persona
  • A So hates the words of the girl
  • B Understands the girl's songs
  • C Does not understand the girl's language
  • D Is so much in love with the girl
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Question 40:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. Will no one tell me what she sings perhaps the plaintive numbers flow for old, unhappy, far off things And battles long ago. Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? The lines above end in a literary device known as
  • A Irony
  • B Conceit
  • C Transfered epithet
  • D Rhetorical question
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