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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 21:
"Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face"


The excerpt above exemplifies _______?
  • A Irony
  • B Synedoche
  • C Symbolism
  • D Euphemism
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Question 22:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.


"goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast"


The literary device in the extract above from Herbert's The Pulley is
  • A Metonymy
  • B Personification
  • C Oxymoron
  • D Irony
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Question 23:
This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello.


"...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?....."


The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______?
  • A Othello
  • B Lago
  • C Brabantio
  • D Roderigo
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Question 24:
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption


The Two dominant themes of the play are
  • A Honesty and decency
  • B Immorality and greed
  • C Poverty and education
  • D Weeding and planting
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Question 25:
Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word

Pad
  • A Paid
  • B Mail
  • C Mart
  • D Made
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