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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a
Abicycle owner
Bchief clerk
Cchief messenger
Ddeputy to Jero
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Question 2
jamb1998
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
Brother Chume as a member of Jero's congregation is
Aan informed disciple
Ba messenger to Brother Jero
Ca loyalist and a good husband
Da disgruntled and gullible follower
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Question 3
jamb1998
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '
The lines above in the play are delivered by
AKate
BTony
CMarlow
DConstance
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Question 4
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'
Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'
The tone of the lines above is
Asatiric
Bsarcastic
Cindicting
Dself-pitying
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Question 5
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'
Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'
The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing
Aa suspenseful opening
Ban appropriate setting
Cshort clear sentences
Dimages of violence
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Question 6
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'
Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'
The terseness of the prose above is employed to
Acapture a climax
Bdepict tension
Ccondemn the man
Dsympathize with the girl
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Question 7
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'
Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'
The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is
Aa prince
Ba food lover
Cbeing entertained
Dbeing manipulated
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Question 8
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.
But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.
Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'
The passage above is an example of
Ahyperbolism
Bjuxtaposition
Cunderstatement
Ddidactism
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Question 9
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'
In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the
Apassing of time and shortness of life
Bswift passing of waves from shore to shore
Cpassing of time from hours to minutes and second
Dmovement of pebbles to the shore
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Question 10
jamb1998
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of
Adisgust
Bindignation
Cfear
Dsorrow
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Question 11
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'One man with a head
shaven clean as a potato
whispered to the rising sun,
a red eye wiped by a tattered
handkerchief of clouds.'
Mtshali, 'Men in Chains
The figures of speech employed in the lines above are
Ametaphor and onomatopoeia
Bsimile and metonymy
Cmetaphor and simile
Dpersonification and onomatopoeia
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Question 12
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.
Oculi, 'Orphan'
These lines illustrate the use of
Asadism
Bsophism
Csatire
Deuphemism
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Question 13
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Romantic poetry emphasizes
Athe beauty of nature
Bintimate relationships
Cthe love in human nature
Dthe romance in human aspirations
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Question 14
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as
Aan anagnorisis
Ba tragic flaw
Ca catharsis
Da catastrophe
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Question 15
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A melodramatic play is based on
Aa melodious manipulation of events
Bingredients that mllow down events
Csensational plot and characters
Dthe playwright's didactic overtones
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Question 16
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'
The literary device used here is
Aan apostrophe
Ban allegory
Ca poetic license
Da rhetoric
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Question 17
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of
Airony
Bparadox
Ccontrast
Dparallelism
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Question 18
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called
Ashort verses
Brhythmic verses
Cfree verses
Dirregular verses
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Question 19
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An elegy is a poem that morns for the
Adeceased
Bbeeaved
Caccused
Dking
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Question 20
jamb1998
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The three main unities in drama are those of
