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Question 111

jamb 2023

The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

Apsycho-consciousness styles

Bnarrator's mind style

Cshifting style

Dstream of consciousness

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Question 112

jamb 2023

This question is based on BAT.

Read the excerpt and answer the question:
"Bat!
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

The theme of this excerpt is____

AAll of the above

Bthe poet's right to Individual choice

Cthe poet's admiration of the beauty of nature

Dthe poet's appalling remarks about the bird

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Question 113

jamb 2023

The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

AAction

BCharacter

CCharacterization

DDramatis personae

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Question 114

jamb 2023

A limerick has

Aornate style, humour, irony and seven lines

Bformal and elaborate style and humour

Chumour,rhyme scheme and five lines

Da stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines

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Question 115

jamb 2023

Literature written specially for stage performance is

Afiction

Bpoetry

Cdrama

Dprose

Question 116

jamb 2022

The hunter dies
and leaves his poverty to his gun
The blacksmith dies
and leaves his poverty to his anvil...
The extract above is an example of

Aepic

Beulogy

Cballad

Delegy

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Question 117

jamb 2022

A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

Aanti-climax

Binterlude

Cflashback

Dforeshadowing

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Question 118

jamb 2022

Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

APoetry

BProse

CAroma

DDrama

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Question 119

jamb 2022

'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

Arepetition

Balliteration

Cparadox

Drhyme scheme

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Question 120

jamb 2022

Chanson is a term denoting a

Apopular Korean verse

BSong from the middle Ages

CForm of love song

Dpoem of Varied Metrical forms

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Question 121

jamb 2022

"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a

AAspotrophe

BAlliteration

CRepetitiion

DAssonance

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Question 122

jamb 2022

'To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
- William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

Ametaphor

Bsimile

Cparadox

Dhyperbole

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Question 123

jamb 2022

"Rays of sun peeping through the cloud ", the line is an example of

ASynecdoche

BIrony

CApostrophe

DPersonification

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Question 124

jamb 2022

The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

Aomniscient narrator

Bparticipatory narrator

Cobjective narrator

Dsubjective narrator

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Question 125

jamb 2022

"I hate brave cowards like you" is an example of

AIrony

BAntithesis

CEulogy

DOxymoron

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Question 126

jamb 2022

An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.

Apurgation

Bperipeteia

Chubris

Danagnorisis

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Question 127

jamb 2022

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

Acast list

Blist of characters

Cprotagonist and antagonist

Dorder of appearance

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Question 128

jamb 2022

'I am jealous and passonate
Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

Asimile

Bparadox

Cmetaphor

Dhyperbole

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Question 129

jamb 2022

"A time to sow,
A time to reap,
A time to born,
A time to die"
This exemplies the use of ...

Ahendiadys

Bchiasmus

Canaphora

Danadiplosis

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Question 130

jamb 2022

A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called

Alampoon

Bcaricature

Cburlesque

Dsatire

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