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Question 1021

jamb 1984

To be complete, a play MUST have

Aa prologue

Ban epilogue

Cdramatic irony

Da conflict

Eseveral soliloquies.

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Question 1022

jamb 1984

'Assonance' is the product of a poet's use of

Amasculine ryhme

Bmany consonant

Cregular ryhme

Dsimilar sounding vowels

Eimaginative metaphors.

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Question 1023

jamb 1984

A well known epic in English literature is

ARobinson Crusoe

BThe Marchant of Venice

CSons and Lovers

DTreasure Island

Eparadise lost.

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Question 1024

jamb 1984

What we call 'tragic flaw' is the

Aelement of plot that makes a work dramatic

Btypographical error occuring in a work of drama

Cpronunciation error made by an actor on stage

Dunsuccessful play written by an other wise great dramatist

Eweakness in character responsible for the downfall of a dramatic hero.

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Question 1025

jamb 1984

The protagonist of a story is generally

Athe protest made by the principle character against his adversaries

Bthe principle character of the story

Cthe theme of the story

Done of the minor characters in the story

Ethe protest made by a character against the hero

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Question 1026

jamb 1984

The plot of story generally refers to the

Aintrigue made by a character against the hero

Bintrigue made by a hero against a character

Cway the writer begins the story

Dway the writer ends the story

Eway in which the events of the story are organised.

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Question 1027

jamb 1984

A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an

Aepithet

Bepigram

Cinvective

Dimpression

Eanalogy

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Question 1028

jamb 1984

Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as

Aapostrophe

Bpersonification

Cdenotation

Dallusion

Eimitation

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Question 1029

jamb 1984

A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as

Aparadoxial

Bmetaphysical

Clogical

Drhetorical

Eleading

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Question 1030

jamb 1984

We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.
In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

AObierika

BOkoli

COdukwe

DOkonkwo

EEzenwa.

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Question 1031

jamb 1984

'...A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.'
In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates

Aliving according to nature

Bthe spirit of communal living

Cthe ancestral spirit

Dthe virtures of self reliance

Etraditional festivals

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Question 1032

jamb 1984

The episode in which the priestess of Agbala takes Ezinma to the shrine at night is meant to demostrate how

Adaring Okonkwo is

Bmuch the priestess dislikes Okonkwo's family

Cmuch concerned for his family Okonkwo is

Ddisrespectful to traditional office holders Umuofia is

Erude and unfeeling the priestess is

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Question 1033

jamb 1984

'A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother's hut and tears stood in his eyes.'
The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

Adeath of Unoka

Bkilling of Ikemefuna

Cexiling of Okonkwo

Dtransfer of Mr. Brown

Eimprisonment of Okonkwo.

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Question 1034

jamb 1984

'When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo's compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the "obi" He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur'
This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are

Aweary lazy people

Bvery docile people

Cpeace-loving people

Dmilitary weak people

Einferior beings compare to white people.h

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Question 1035

jamb 1984

Achebe's Things Fall Apart, can be described as a

Aregional novel

Bdetective novel

Cromatic novel

Dhistorical novel

Enovel of social criticism.

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Question 1036

jamb 1984

'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others.

In the content of Animal Farm, this statement means that equality

Ais possible only under socialism

Bis possible only under capitalism

Cis not desirable

Dwas possible only in the past

Eis desirable but impossible.

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Question 1037

jamb 1984

Since George Orwell was in fact writing about men while pretending to be writing about animals, his novel, Animal Farm can be classified as

Aa realistic novel

Ban allegorical novel

Ca naturalistic novel

Da novel of adventure

Ea sentimental novel

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Question 1038

jamb 1984

In Animal Farm, the song
'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

was first sung by

ASnowball

BSquealer

COld Major

DNapoleon

EBluebell

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Question 1039

jamb 1984

'Thou art the giver of
All that thy creatures love,
Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;
Every beast great or small
Sleeps at peace in his stall
Thou watchest over all...'

The poem (Animal Farm) refers to

ASquealer

BSnowball

CNapoleon

DBoxer

EClover.

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Question 1040

jamb 1984

In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare

Athe supremacy of animal over man

Bthat animal shall in no way imitate human activities

Cthat man is infinitely superior

Dthat animal and men are equal

Ethat animal are inferior to humans.

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