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Question 1651
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the

Afeling of doubt
Bfeeling of despair
Cfeeling of desperation
Dsence of failure
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Question 1652
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have and all the world in season'.
The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

Aoxymoron
Balliteration
Ceuphemism
Dhyperbole
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Question 1653
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

Ain most kinds of poems
Bonly in free verse
Cuniquely in blank verse
Dpeculiarly in rhyming couplets
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Question 1654
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

Adiscover the beauty of a literary work
Bfinds faults in a literary work
Canalyse and evaluate a literary work
Dcompare literary works
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Question 1655
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

Alines
Bstanzas
Crefrains
Dpoems
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Question 1656
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An autobiography becomes a literary work when

Ait is a faithful account of the author's
Bit underlines the salient events in the author's life
Cit relates the author's life to the major events of the day
Dits value resides principally in its style
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Question 1657
jamb 1988

A dirge is a

Aromantic poem
Bpoem on nature
Cpoem of expectations
Dpoem of lament
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Question 1658
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Genres of literature aptly describes

Atradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
Bode, elegy, sonnet
Cshort story, novel, autobiography
Dpoetry, prose , drama
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Question 1659
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as

Amime
Bparadox
Ccriticism
Dparody
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Question 1660
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is

Apastoral
Bballad
Cromance
Depic
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Question 1661
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
The persons who take part in a play are sometimes referred to as

Aaudience
Bdramatists
Cdramatis personae
Dcomedians
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Question 1662
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A play is called a comedy when

Athere is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
Bnobody dies in it
Cthere is no serious quarrel in it
Dthere is a happy resolution of contradictions
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Question 1663
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here?

AAbel Magwich
BMr. Wopsle
CMr Punblechook
DJoe Gargery
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Question 1664
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes

Acruelty to servants
Baristocratic snobbery
Cgossiping females
Dover-indulgent parents
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Question 1665
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through

Athe complaints of Biddy
Bthe pretensions of Pumblechook
Chis rejection by Estella
Dthe death of his sister
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Question 1666
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; - such is Life!
Joe summarized his wife's behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery's quarrel with

APip
BOrlick
CJoe
DBiddy
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Question 1667
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was

Aborn an eccentric
Bcruelly ill-used by a man
Cby nature nasty and shy of company
Dbadly brought up
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Question 1668
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The story in the book is told from the point of view of

ANwabunor
BObanua
Ca first person narrator
Da third person narrator
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Question 1669
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

Acannot spell correctly
Bcannot speak English correctly
Cis a stranger
Dis very angry
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Question 1670
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

Afood
Bjob
Csecurity
Dpower
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