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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 26:
'Nightfall! Nightfall! You are my mortal enemy' The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______
  • A Allusion
  • B An ode
  • C Metaphor
  • D Apostrophe
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Question 27:
The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________
  • A Expressed through rhetorical questions
  • B Condemnation
  • C Expressed through the use of innuendos
  • D Concern
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Question 28:
... is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece
  • A Storyline
  • B Narrative hook
  • C Plot
  • D Suspense
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Question 29:
In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______
  • A Personification
  • B Metonymy
  • C Metaphor
  • D Allusion
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Question 30:
Read the poem and answer questions At dawn must I rise to till the rock That our land has turned into The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect For the life of fellow man by his fellow Kindred blood has counted for less than no value Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother Communal loot has emptied our country silos The earth has stopped breathing and sighed Soldered tears has the moon shed The earth was scorched at noon-day night And our land has turned to hoeing rock. The theme of the poem is__________
  • A Drought and heat
  • B Abomination and retribution
  • C Sickness and death
  • D Famine and disease
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