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Question 1181

jamb 1978

"That year, the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself".

The mood conveyed here is one of

Aexcitement

Bsadness

Cjoy

Dtriumph

Eelation

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Question 1182

jamb 1978

An image in poetry usually gives a clue to one of the following:

Arhyme

Bassonance

Cparadox

Dtheme

Erefrain

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Question 1183

jamb 1978

Point out the odd item:

ARaisin in the sun

BTwelfth Night

COzidi

DThe Concubine

ERomeo and Juliet

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Question 1184

jamb 1978

Another shoal of cars swam past. One in particular caught his eye, a long slender thing, elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver, a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

Abirds

Bants

Cfish

Dlamp-posts

Epretty girls

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Question 1185

jamb 1978

The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an 'old' family fallen on evil days.....

This writer's tone is

Amelancholic

Bmatter-of-fact

Cbitterly humorous

Dsympathetic

Esad

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Question 1186

jamb 1978

You cannot know
And should not bother;
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.

In this verse, the poet uses

Aalternate rhymes

Bmonorhyme

Ccouplets

Dtriplets

Eblank verses

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Question 1187

jamb 1978

If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography,we mean that it is

Aa historical novel

Ba piece of writing telling us about the life of its author

Ca short story

Da narrative tale

Ea book well written

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Question 1188

jamb 1978

In 'The Flight to Australia' the following line occurs:'Tier upon tier it towered,the terrible Apennines' The figure of speech used in this line is known as

Aalliteration

Blitotes

Cexaggeration

Dparody

Emetonym

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Question 1189

jamb 1978

In 'The Castle' Muir writes:Our only enemy was gold'! This is true because

Athe castle was made of gold

Ball the men swallowed gold

Cthere was no gold to pay for arms

Dthe captain stole all available gold

Egold was the cause of their betrayal

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Question 1190

jamb 1978

In T.S Elliot's 'Journey of the Magi' the old choirmaster could not be buried in the manner he wished because he unfortunately died

Ain summer

Bin spring

Cat night

Din winter

Ein the chapel

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Question 1191

jamb 1978

In 'The Duel' Thomas ends his narrative

Awith a wish to see more duels fought

Bin celebration of female fidelity

Cin hopeless despair and anger

Dwith an unexpected turn of events

Ein praise of matrimonial bliss

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Question 1192

jamb 1978

In 'I Will Pronounce Your Name'Senghor writes:'Naett that is the dry tornado,the clap of lightening'.
The figure of speech used in the above line is

Ametaphor

Bsimile

Chyperbole

Dirony

Esynedoche

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Question 1193

jamb 1978

The language of David Diop's 'Africa' suggests

Athe beauty of the African country side

Bthat black is beautiful

Cthat the poet is sad because Africa has been exploited and laid waste for too long

Dthat the poet remembers the great empire of Africa

Ethat the poet sees Africa as a colonial power

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Question 1194

jamb 1978

In one of the three jugs
The three jugs were on certain evenings to return the tranquil souls,
the breaths of the ancestors,
The ancestors who were men,
The ancestors who were sages,
Mother has dipped three fingers
three fingers of her left hand:
thumb, forefinger and middle finger
I have dipped three fingers
Three fingers of my right hand:
thumb, forefinger and middle finger.
(From "Viaticum"by B. Diop)

In this poem, the repetitive pattern suggests

Apain,agony, and misery

Britual or established form of worship

Cthe love of a mother for her child

Dthe beauty of the full moon

Ethe glorious lives of our ancestors

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Question 1195

jamb 1978

Dinny,Lippy,Steepy and Fatty are characters in

AKossoh Town Boy

BKontiki Expedition

CTell Freedom

DThe Concubine

ENo Longer at Ease

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Question 1196

jamb 1978

In 'Fulani Cattle' J.P Clark expresses

Athe anger and sympathy he feels at seeing cattle driven all the way from the North to the South of Nigeria to be slaughtered

Badmiration for the beauty of Fulani cattle

Cgrief at the gradual destruction of this fine breed of cattle

Dthe joy of the cattle at being driven over pleasant fields

Ethe idea that more cattle should be taken to the South to be slaughtered

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Question 1197

jamb 1978

Essentially, plays are meant

Ato be read for sheer pleasure

Bto make us laugh

Cto be presented on stage through words and actions

Dto keep people out of trouble

Eto change the whole world

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Question 1198

jamb 1978

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy because

Ait is full of noblemen and ladies

Bit is set in Verona

Cit ends unhappily

DJuliet is only fourteen years old

Eit has five acts

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