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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 26:
"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka: "Night".

Night children in the stanza above reacts the consciousness of__________
  • A Birds
  • B Armed robbers
  • C Animals
  • D Spirit beings
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Question 27:
Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: "Night"


The dominant mood in the lines above is one at ____________
  • A Apprehension
  • B Defiance
  • C Joy
  • D Indifference
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Question 28:
"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Stark: "Casualties"

The poet in the excerpt above uses
  • A Litotes
  • B Symbolism
  • C Onomatopoeia
  • D Aliteration
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Question 29:
"... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: “Casualties"
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______
  • A Metaphor
  • B Personification
  • C Synecdoche
  • D Metonymy
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Question 30:
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”
The lines above inform the reader that the poet
  • A Is determined to suffer
  • B Has his poetic imagination kindled
  • C Will cure his sour mood
  • D Will not drink much
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