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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 2181:
This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.<br/><br/>The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___
  • A Oxymoron
  • B Simile
  • C Metaphor
  • D Hyperbole
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Question 2182:
*For seven days it rained that June;<br/>A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that<br/>complained in his hair.<br/>John Updike, <i>Wash</i><br/><br/>The image set in the lines above are of
  • A Rain and flood in June
  • B Discomfort and likely destruction
  • C The days of Noah
  • D An animal insects and fun
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Question 2183:
The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called
  • A Nemesis
  • B Catharsis
  • C Hubris
  • D Tragedy
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Question 2184:
<b>'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is a tragicomic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains'</b> .<br/><br/>The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called
  • A Scansion
  • B Enjambment
  • C Caesura
  • D Apostrophe
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Question 2185:
This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.<br/><br/>"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Consonance
  • C Assonance
  • D Alliteration
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