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Question 11

jamb 2015

This question is based on General literacy principles

A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as

Aallegory

Bassonance

Cmetre

Donomatopoeia

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Question 12

jamb 2015

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

'.... The youthful hue sits on thy skin like a morning dew...'

AOnomatopoeia

BOxymoron

CParadox

DSimile

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Question 13

jamb 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favorite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap
The rhyme scheme of the poet above is

Abbaa

Baabb

Cabab

Dbaba

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Question 14

jamb 2015

Read the extract below and this answer question.

The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of
dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream
as it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.
The underline expression in line 3 is

Alitotes

Bpersonification

Chyperbole

Dsynecdoche

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Question 15

jamb 2015

The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as

Aan epilogue

Ban autobiography

Ca travelogue

Da prologue

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Question 16

jamb 2015

This question is based on General literacy principles

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is

Aparallelism

Bassonance

Calliteration

Dpun

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Question 17

jamb 2015

Ballad is meant to be

Adiscussed

Bread

Csung

Dacted

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Question 18

jamb 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

O! Ceremony, show me but thy worth what is thy soul of adoration.
The figure of speech in the lines above is

Aantithesis

Bapostrophe

Cpersonification

Deuphemism

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Question 19

jamb 2015

In literary devices, pun deals with

Aplacing words side by side

Bplaying on words

Carrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer

Dplacing two opposite phrases

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Question 20

jamb 2015

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

Aalliteration and assonance

Bsimile and personification

Crepetition and alliteration

Drhyme and rhythm

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Question 21

jamb 2015

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

Alyric

Blullaby

Cmimic

Drhythm

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Question 22

jamb 2015

Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to

Apreach a sermon

Btell a story

Csummarize a story

Ddescribe a place

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Question 23

jamb 2015

Sweet smile in time of snarl
gives pride in spite of sneer
sing, rid this world of despair
and save, a snared heart from
cascading stream of strife
The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

Arhyme

Balliteration

Cchiasmus

Donomatopoeia

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Question 24

jamb 2015

Travelogue is a work of art written

Aby a famous playwright

Bbefore the death of the author

Cby an unpopular novelist

Don a journey

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Question 25

jamb 2015

Plays are basically meant to be

Apresented on stage

Bpresented in the aircraft

Cpresented in an office

Dpresented in the hospital

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Question 26

jamb 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on it',
There's something in me that
reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

Aassonance

BMetaphor

CLitotes

Dantonym

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Question 27

jamb 2015

This question is based on General literacy principles

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbol is known as

Acharacterization

Ballegory

Cmetaphor

Dparallelism

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Question 28

jamb 2015

Use the passage below to answer this question.

'But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.
She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains
heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost'.

The subject matter of the passage is

Aearthquake

Bdemolition

Cflood

Dstorm

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Question 29

jamb 2015

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The figure of speech in the line below from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is 'We would be believing we dreamt it'

Aassonance

Bantithesis

Capostrophe

Dalliteration

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Question 30

jamb 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through
'........They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests.......'
_ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

Ametaphor

Bpersonification

Csynecdoche

Dantonym

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