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Question 1
jamb 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... 

In these lines, the speaker expresses that 

Acannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
Bis in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
Cthat both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
Dthat African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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Question 2
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Hark, Hark!
Bow-Wow
The watch dogs bark!
Bow-Wow
Hark, Hark! I hear
The strain of the struting chanticleer
Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of

Aassonance
Bonomatopeia
Calliteration
Dconsonance
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Question 3
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is

Ajealous of rich and influential people
Boverwhelmed by the power of money
Ccontemptuous of the poor
Dindirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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Question 4
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

Aassonance
Bdissonance
Cslapstick
Dalliteration
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Question 5
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

Apersonification
Boxymoron
Cmetonymy
Dparadox
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Question 6
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
The above poem essentially deals with the theme of

Aold age
Bchildhood innocence
Cbeauty of the rainbow
Dfatherhood
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Question 7
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of

Azeugma
Boxymoron
Cantithesis
Dconceit
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Question 8
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are

Aunderstatement and hyperbole
Birony and metaphor
Csimile and personification
Dirony and understatement
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Question 9
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
The mood of the quotation in this passage is

Atragically comic
Bdeadly serious
Cplayfully serious
Dhumorously comic
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Question 10
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the

Afeling of doubt
Bfeeling of despair
Cfeeling of desperation
Dsence of failure
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Question 11
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have and all the world in season'.
The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

Aoxymoron
Balliteration
Ceuphemism
Dhyperbole
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Question 12
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

Ain most kinds of poems
Bonly in free verse
Cuniquely in blank verse
Dpeculiarly in rhyming couplets
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Question 13
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

Adiscover the beauty of a literary work
Bfinds faults in a literary work
Canalyse and evaluate a literary work
Dcompare literary works
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Question 14
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

Alines
Bstanzas
Crefrains
Dpoems
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Question 15
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An autobiography becomes a literary work when

Ait is a faithful account of the author's
Bit underlines the salient events in the author's life
Cit relates the author's life to the major events of the day
Dits value resides principally in its style
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Question 16
jamb 1988

A dirge is a

Aromantic poem
Bpoem on nature
Cpoem of expectations
Dpoem of lament
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Question 17
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Genres of literature aptly describes

Atradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
Bode, elegy, sonnet
Cshort story, novel, autobiography
Dpoetry, prose , drama
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Question 18
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as

Amime
Bparadox
Ccriticism
Dparody
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Question 19
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is

Apastoral
Bballad
Cromance
Depic
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Question 20
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
The persons who take part in a play are sometimes referred to as

Aaudience
Bdramatists
Cdramatis personae
Dcomedians
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