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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 6:
"A time to sow,
A time to reap,
A time to born,
A time to die"
This exemplies the use of ____________
  • A Hendiadys
  • B Chiasmus
  • C Anaphora
  • D Anadiplosis
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Question 7:
'I am jealous and passonate
Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'

J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is ____________
  • A Simile
  • B Paradox
  • C Metaphor
  • D Hyperbole
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Question 8:
Dramatis personae in a play refers to ____________
  • A Cast list
  • B List of characters
  • C Protagonist and antagonist
  • D Order of appearance
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Question 9:
An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called ____________
  • A Purgation
  • B Peripeteia
  • C Hubris
  • D Anagnorisis
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Question 10:
"I hate brave cowards like you" is an example of ____________
  • A Irony
  • B Antithesis
  • C Eulogy
  • D Oxymoron
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