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Question 21

waec 1999

One of the following is a literary device

ASonnet

BOde

CSuspense

DLyric

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Question 22

waec 1999

The repetition of similar vowel sounds within lines is

Aparallelism

Ballusion

Cassonance

Dalliteration

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Question 23

waec 1999

A word that sounds like what it names is a (n)

Aalliteration

Bassonance

Conomatopoeia

Drhyme

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Question 24

waec 1999

Literary works are classified into

Acantose

Bepisodes

Ceras

Dgenres

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Question 25

waec 1999

A couplet is formed by

Afive lines of poetry

Btwo rhymed lines of poetry

Ctwo lines of poetry

Dfive rhymed lines of poetry

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Question 26

waec 1999

An elegy is a poem

Acommemorating a birth

Bcommemorating a national celebration

Cmourning the dead

Dmourning the passage of time

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Question 27

waec 1999

A short speech at the end a play is the

Aepilogue

Bdenouement

Cperoration

Dconclusion

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Question 28

jamb 1999

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The stage direction at the end of the play reveals

Athe actors in a changing room

BMama Kayode raising the song of hope

CMoremi and Titubi in harsh spotlights

Dthe Dirctor making a farewell speech.

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Question 29

jamb 1999

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be descried as

Adramatic epilogue

Bdramatic monologue

Crole-playing

Dflashback

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Question 30

jamb 1999

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

Titubi joins the farmers' revolt

Ato ensure its success

Bas a spy for the establishment

Cin pursuit of Marshal

Dto defy the police

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Question 31

jamb 1999

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

In the play, social change is achieved through

Acollectivism

Bsectionalism

Cindividual

Dcommunism

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Question 32

jamb 1999

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

DUKE:...Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasped To thee the book even of my secret soul.
What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

AThe book of his relationship with Olivia

BThe secret book of his soul

CThe details of his relationship with Viola

DThe details of his relationship with Olivia.

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Question 33

jamb 1999

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

According to the play, the Duke of lllyria is fascinated by

Athe idea of love

Bthe food of love

Cmusic

Dentertainment

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Question 34

jamb 1999

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair The statement above characterizes.

AMaria

BOlivia

CRoderigo

DViola

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Question 35

jamb 1999

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In drama, the term climax is used

Aas a figure of speech connoting beauty

Bfor the point of highest dramatic tension

Cwhen the crisis in the play is resolved

Dwhen the hero's tragic flaw is revealed

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Question 36

jamb 1999

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You amble on
we can no longer
wait for nature's course
we must deliver
you
with
force'
Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'
The mood in the lines above is one of

Afear

Bsorrow

Cjoy

Dindignation

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Question 37

jamb 1999

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.
Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'
The character in the poem above is obviously a

Aveteran

Bprisoner

Cmercenary

Drefugee

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Question 38

jamb 1999

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'Ibadan,
running splash of rust
and gold - flung and scattered
among seven hills like broken
china in the sun.'
J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'
The poem above is memorable for its

Apun

Bheroism

Cmetaphor

Dlyricism

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Question 39

jamb 1999

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.
Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'
In the passage above, the sea is

Aromanticised

Bpersonified

Ccriticised

Dpraised

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Question 40

jamb 1999

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',
E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'
In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

Acannibalism

Bmonstrosity

Cevil

Ddoom

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