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Question 1751
jamb 1984

Which of the following works by Wole Soyinka is a novel?

AThe interpreters
BThe Lion and the jewel
CThe Trials of Brother Jero
DKongi's Harvest
EThe Strong Breed
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Question 1752
jamb 1984
To be complete, a play MUST have
Aa prologue
Ban epilogue
Cdramatic irony
Da conflict
Eseveral soliloquies.
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Question 1753
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 1754
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 1755
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 1756
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 1757
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 1758
jamb 1984
A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an
Aepithet
Bepigram
Cinvective
Dimpression
Eanalogy
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Question 1759
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 1760
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 1761
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 1762
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 1763
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 1764
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 1765
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 1766
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 1767
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 1768
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 1769
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 1770
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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