Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 1
jamb 1980

In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could

Abecome pagans
Bappreciate the beauty of Nature more
Cgo to see Proteus and Triton
Dbecome part of Nation
Egive their 'hearts aways
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Question 2
jamb 1980

The dominant images in Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth are those of

Alove and beauty
Byouth and joy
Cdeath and burial
Dthe sweetness of wooling
Ethe richness of a man's memory
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Question 3
jamb 1980

In As You Like It, the verse which begins

' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about

Aa storm in winter
Bman's ingratitude
CDuk Senior cave
DLe Beau's love for Snowballs
EOriando's love for Rosalind
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Question 4
jamb 1980

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

Aa great noble man
Ba devout christain
Can apicurian in taste
Da jovial character
Ean ambitious man
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Question 5
jamb 1980

In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are

Aabused
Baccursed
Cromanticized
Dpraised
Eadmonished
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Question 6
jamb 1980

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's

Acleverness
Bversatility
Cmoral weakness
Dromatic disposition
Eevil nature
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Question 7
jamb 1980

'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

Aalternative rhymes
Btriplets
Ccouplets
Dfree verse
Eblank verse
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Question 8
jamb 1980
Poetry deals with one of the following
Aemotion only
Bdeath only
Cideas only
Demotion and ideas
Ebeauty only
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Question 9
jamb 1980

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour I Traverse' is

Asuffering and oppression
Blaughter and happiness
Csinging and merry making
Dlove for a woman
Elong journey
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Question 10
jamb 1980

In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes

Aflood
Bancestor
Cmodernity
Dsacrifise
Egolden girl
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Question 11
jamb 1980

'She came in silken Drapes' is about the

Avirtures of love
Bkilling of a coral snake
Cdanger of false love
Dbeautiful butterfly
Esleeping leopards.
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Question 12
jamb 1980

The feeling in the poem 'Nightfall in Soweto' is one of

Agratitude
Blove
Chate
Djoy
Esafety
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Question 13
jamb 1980

'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

Asimile
Bmetaphor
Cpolysyndeton
Dmonosyndeton
Ealliteration
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Question 14
jamb 1980
'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.
This character may best be described as a woman
Aof habit
Bof poor means
Cof wide literary interest
Dwith poor memory
Ewho loved her mother
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Question 15
jamb 1980

'Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning'.

It is suggested in this lines that

Athe beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
Bthe beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
Cthe beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
Dthe beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
Ethere is no beauty on earth
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Question 16
jamb 1980
'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to
Afun
Bill heath
Ccarelessness
Dsacrifice
Edicting
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Question 17
jamb 1980
''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.

The passage achieve realism through the use of
Adetails
Bsimple words
Cthe long sentence
Dthe past tense
Epunctuation.
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Question 18
jamb 1980
'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....
AThe end
Ba lover's Hope
CJoy's of being in love
DThe journey of life
EGlad lover
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Question 19
jamb 1980

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

Aanalogies
Brhetorical questions
Capostrophes
Dexaggerations
Esimiles.
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Question 20
jamb 1980

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

Ahis bed has always uncomfortable
Bhe has sleepless nights
Che has no literary pretensions
Dhe is well-versed in rhetorics
Ehe is a poor sleeper.
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