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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 26:
Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of
  • A Birds
  • B Ants
  • C Fish
  • D Lampposts
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Question 27:
Pick out the odd item
  • A A Raisin in the Sun
  • B Twelfth Night
  • C Ozidi
  • D The Concubine
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Question 28:
That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of ____________
  • A Excitement
  • B Sadness
  • C Joy
  • D Triumph
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Question 29:
One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy
  • A Climax
  • B Happy ending
  • C Tragic hero
  • D Alliteration
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Question 30:
A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is ____________
  • A Hero
  • B Opposition
  • C Villain
  • D Heroine
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