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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 41:
He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day, on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi... The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as
  • A A soldier
  • B Abnormal
  • C Energetic
  • D A policeman
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Question 42:
He is a faithful liar The line above is an example of
  • A Euphemism
  • B Antithesis
  • C Epigram
  • D Oxymoron
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Question 43:
Fights by the book of arithmetic The figure of speech in the line above is
  • A Litotes
  • B Innuendo
  • C Hyperbole
  • D Euphemism
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Question 44:
And when you trudge on one horny Pads Gullied like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even jiggers cannot conquer Horny pads in the lines above is a reference to a
  • A Sole of a pauper
  • B Sole of a soldier
  • C Policeman
  • D Madman
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Question 45:
"Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there, And it mimic all we would believe With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.' P.B. Shelley:Sonnet The stanza above is an example of a
  • A Couplet
  • B Sestet
  • C Quatrain
  • D Sonnet
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