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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb Literature In English Questions

Question 221:
According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is
  • A Poor
  • B Religious
  • C Hopeful
  • D Frustrated
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Question 222:
This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.


You want to known something then you run like a rabbit'


The device used in the line above is
  • A Pun
  • B Personification
  • C Metaphor
  • D Simile
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Question 223:
This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.


According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of
  • A Being more educated
  • B Accommodation
  • C Good job
  • D The rights to vote
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Question 224:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.


The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of
  • A Fable
  • B Euphemism
  • C Allegory
  • D Symbolism
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Question 225:
This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.


The tone of the persona in Blake's The School Boy is that of
  • A Fear
  • B Fulfillment
  • C Contempt
  • D Neutrality
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