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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 36:
Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word

Account
  • A Surmount
  • B Acom
  • C Aground
  • D Astound
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Question 37:
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 Vicent, 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.



One of the thematic preoccupations of Awooner's The Anvil and the Hammer is
  • A Clash of cultures
  • B Revival of colonalism
  • C The changing face of colonial masters
  • D The good attributes of colonalism
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Question 38:
This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.


The cap-picking ceremony is to
  • A Break the strong will of Yaremi
  • B Make Yaremi remarry
  • C Establish that she is wicked
  • D Prove that Ajumobi is not the best
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Question 39:
This Question is based on General Literacy principles and Literacy Appreciations.


A poem used to express grief on the occasion of someone's death is _______?
  • A Elergy
  • B Epic
  • C Dirge
  • D Sonnet
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Question 40:
This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

(ACP Yakubu in his office)...


How can that old crook of a Judge acquit and discharge a very clear case of cocaine pushing. What evidence is he looking for?...' The technique used in the excerpt above is called
  • A Interior monologue
  • B Apostrophe
  • C Dramatic monologue
  • D Soliloquoy
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