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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 41:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. Oh incomprehensible God! Shall my pilot be My inborn stars to that Final call to thee... The literary device used in the first line is
  • A Burlesque
  • B Rhetoric
  • C Passion
  • D Apostrophe
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Question 42:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. "Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun Rising From the lines above, the poet sees the sun as
  • A Illumination after darkness
  • B An unnecessary evil
  • C A necessary evil
  • D A light provider
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Question 43:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. The body perishes, the heart stays young. The platter wears away with serving food. No log retains its bark when old, No lover peaceful while the rival weeps. The theme of the poem above is
  • A Non-peaceful nature of love
  • B Diminishing nature of love
  • C Permanence of love
  • D Decaying nature of wood
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Question 44:
These question is based on Literary Appreciation. The body perishes, the heart stays young. The platter wears away with serving food. No log retains its bark when old, No lover peaceful while the rival weeps. From the poem above, "No lover peaceful while the rival weeps" means that
  • A The pain of one lover is felt by the other
  • B There is no permanent love
  • C There is true and permanent love
  • D The two lovers weep together
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Question 45:
"Will college make you a better Olokun priest? Will it make you serve our ancestors better? Look at me. An able-bodied, strong- hearted priest of Olokun. Did I go to college?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Metaphor
  • C Simile
  • D Parallelism
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