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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 1981:
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The main aim of of caricature is to
  • A Describe
  • B Expose
  • C Emphasize
  • D Ridicule
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Question 1982:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration
The figure of speech in the lines above is
  • A Antithesis
  • B Invocation
  • C Personification
  • D Apostrophe
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Question 1983:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"What eyes will watch our large mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?"
Birage Diop:Vanity
The tone of the lines above is one of
  • A Sarcasm
  • B Sacrilege
  • C Chiasmus
  • D Eulogy
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Question 1984:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
The old man slept in his favourite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap
The rhyme a scheme of the poem above is
  • A Bbaa
  • B Aabb
  • C Abab
  • D Baba
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Question 1985:
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That board, and sleep, and feed....
The lines above show that the speaker
  • A Detects discrimination
  • B Is desirous of adventure
  • C Hates his old wife
  • D Knows much of his city men
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