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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 11:
The combination of two or more metaphors is called
  • A Monometaphor
  • B Dymetaphor
  • C Mixed metaphor
  • D Combined metaphor
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Question 12:
________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
  • A Referrals
  • B Chiasmus
  • C Metonymy
  • D Allusions
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Question 13:
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
  • A Props
  • B Parody
  • C Pyrrhic
  • D Pathos
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Question 14:
This question is based on BAT.

Use the excerpt to answer this question.
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___
  • A Rhetorical question
  • B Imagery
  • C Alliteration
  • D Paradox
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Question 15:
When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes
  • A A symbol
  • B An irony
  • C A subject
  • D An epigram
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