Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 11
jamb 2018

This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________

AParagraph
BTheme
CChapters
DCharacters
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Question 12
jamb 2018

The writer of a poem is called__________?

AAuthor
BPoet
CWriter
DNarrator
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Question 13
jamb 2018

Which of these is the meaning of “CAST”?

Aa list of all characters in a drama
Bwhat the character is saying
Cthe person who writes the drama
Da list of protagonists in a drama
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Question 14
jamb 2018

What does the playwright do?

AWrites a poem
BWrites a book
CWrites a play
DDirects a drama
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Question 15
jamb 2018

"Peter's pretty partner paid the bills" is an example of___________?

AAlliteration
BRhyme
CSatire
DDigression
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Question 16
jamb 2018

A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

ASimile
BAside
CParallelism
DIrony
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Question 17
jamb 2018

Group of lines are called _____

ASentences
BStanzas
CDanzas
DLine Grouping
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Question 18
jamb 2018

The phrase “living death” in a literary work is an example_____________

ASynecdoche
BProse
COxymoron
DAside
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Question 19
jamb 2018

Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______

AClimax
BConcrete
CConflict
DConfident
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Question 20
jamb 2018

In drama, the protagonist is ________

Athe writer of the drama
Bthe leading character
Cthe “nice guy”
Dthe actor
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Question 21
jamb 2018

He who writes a prose is a__________?

APoet
BWriter
CAuthor
DActor
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Question 22
jamb 2018

“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”

  The lines above inform the reader that the poet

AIs determined to suffer
BHas his poetic imagination kindled
CWill cure his sour mood
DWill not drink much
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Question 23
jamb 2018

"... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: “Casualties"

The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______

 

AMetaphor
BPersonification
CSynecdoche
DMetonymy
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Question 24
jamb 2018

"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"

The poet in the excerpt above uses

Alitotes
Bsymbolism
Conomatopoeia
Daliteration
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Question 25
jamb 2018

Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: "Night" 


The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________

Aapprehension
Bdefiance
Cjoy
Dindifference
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Question 26
jamb 2018

"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka: "Night". 

 

Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of__________

Abirds
Barmed robbers
Canimals
Dspirit beings
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Question 27
jamb 2018

How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...


The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

Aanger
Balienation
Chope
Ddespair
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Question 28
jamb 2018

Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.



The lines above are a good example of_________

Acaricature
Bridicule
Csatire
Dlampoon
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Question 29
jamb 2018

The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

Ametaphor
Bsimile
Cpersonification
Dhyperbole
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Question 30
jamb 2018

The lines are an example of a________?

Alimerick
Blampoon
Clight verse
Dlight opera
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