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Question 101

jamb 2023

'... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

The tone of the passage above is

AMelancholic

BIronic

CHarsh

DDerisive

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Question 102

jamb 2023

"...Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity"

The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

Aapostrophe

Bpersonification

Cmetaphor

Dsimile

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Question 103

jamb 2023

A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

Aopposition

Bheroine

Cvillain

Dhero

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Question 104

jamb 2023

A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

Alampoon

Beulogy

Cpremiere

Danthology

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Question 105

jamb 2023

When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose: I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

Aanger

Bprotest

Crejection

Dnausea

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Question 106

jamb 2023

Be him English

Be him African

Be him Nigerian

The lines above are an example of

Aepigram

Banaphora

Cepitaph

Dtautology

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Question 107

jamb 2023

The sides of a stage are called

Aboth sides

Bthe ways

Cthe wings

Dthe pits

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Question 108

jamb 2023

This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

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"And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

Ametaphor

Bsynecdoche

Csimile

Dparadox

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Question 109

jamb 2023

A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

Asix

Bfour

Cthree

Dfive

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Question 110

jamb 2023

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

Ashort story

Bdiary

Cnovella

Dnovel

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Question 111

jamb 2023

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

Aconcept

Bmyth

Critual

Dmotif

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Question 112

jamb 2023

'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to work
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

Ais working indoors

Bis wearing warm clothes

Cis doing his duty

Dhas just woken from sleep

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Question 113

jamb 2023

The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

ACatastasis

BCatharsis

Cprotasis

DEpitasis

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Question 114

jamb 2023

Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

Ainsanity

Bwickedness

Clawlessness

Disolation

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Question 115

jamb 2023

A panegyric poem is composed to

Acondemn

Belaborate

Cabuse

Dpraise

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Question 116

jamb 2023

Cast in a play refers to

Athree of the actors

Ba few of the actors

Can exclusive social class in the play

Dall the actors

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Question 117

jamb 2023

'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'
John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The tone of this poem is generally

Aconversational

Bimaginative

Cserious

Dappreciative

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Question 118

jamb 2023

The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

Asympathy

Bterror

Chorror

Dfrustration

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Question 119

jamb 2023

Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

AAroma

BPoetry

CDrama

DProse

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Question 120

jamb 2023

Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

Aparadox

Bparody

Cparallelism

Dmetonymy

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