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Question 21
waec 2005
Which of the following poems is based on travel and adventure?
AOde to the West Wind
BFreetown
CUlysses
DNo coffin, No grave
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Question 22
waec 2005
''Horrendous horrors haunted Helen's happiness'' illustrates
Aalliteration
Brhythm
Crepetition
Dassonance
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Question 23
waec 2005
Pick the odd item from the options below
APlot
BTheme
CMetre
DSubject
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Question 24
waec 2005
In ''my finger click with a Snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the key'' the dominant figure of speech used is
Aparallelism
Blitotes
Chyperbole
Donomatopoeia
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Question 25
waec 2005
A narrative poem in the manner of oral folk tradition is
Aa pastoral
Ba lyric
Ca ballad
Dan elegy
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Question 26
waec 2005

Pick the odd item from the options below

AElegy
BEpitaph
CDirge
DOde
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Question 27
waec 2005
A situation in which the audience knows more than the character does, is an instance of
Acomic relief
Binterior monologue
Cdramatic irony
Dpoetic licence
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Question 28
waec 2005
A device that reveals a discrepancy between appearance and reality is
Aoxymoron
Birony
Cantithesis
Dbathos
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Question 29
jamb 2005

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.

The mob in the novel is portrayed as

Aa monster and a snake
Ba bad group
Cdemonstrators
Dfighters
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Question 30
jamb 2005

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.

In the novel, Asejire refers to a

Ariver
Btown
Cfarmer
Dcleric
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Question 31
jamb 2005

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.

Brigadier General Johnson's plan to assassinate President Monye is revealed to

ABiola Denji
Bthe SAB superior
Cthe President's ADC
Da friend
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Question 32
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
Where has my love blow his horn?
The tune of his horn is well-known
Young men of my clan
Have you heard the horn of my love?
Okot P'Bitek: Horn of My Love
The overriding feeling of the persona in this extract is
Aanxiety
Bcertainty
Cfrustration
Djoy
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Question 33
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?
Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay
In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to
Aput the addressee on the defensive
Bshow off to listener
Cprovike a fight
Dfind out the truth from the addresee
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Question 34
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
''She wanted to spit herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go You known I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this, ...'she slapped the Samson and Deliah.'''
Festus lyayi: Violence
In the passage above, the speaker can described as
Adomineering
Btyreacherous
Cfriendly
Dhungry
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Question 35
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..
Joseph Conrald: Nostromo
The passage above describes a troop of
Acows
Belephants
Ccamels
Dhorses
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Question 36
jamb 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles
'If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky
That coin will flutter But the eagle will never fly.'
Henry Dumas: America
The poem above achieves its literary effect through the use of

Aalliteration
Bparallelism
Crepetition
Dsolecism
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Question 37
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.
Cynthia James: Drumology
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely
Aolfactory and visual
Bolfactory and tactile
Cauditory and visual
Dtactile and auditory
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Question 38
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of
Aeuphemism
Bparadox
Chyperbole
Dmetaphor
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Question 39
jamb 2005
This question is based on Literary Principles
'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses
The tone of the poem above is
Aoptimistic
Binterrogative
Cpersuasive
Dpessimistic
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Question 40
jamb 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles


''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free

The holy time is quiet as a Nun

Breathless with adoration; the broad sun

Is sinking down in its tranquility;

The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea:

Listen! the might Being is awake

And doth with his eternal motion make

A sound like thunder-everlasting'.


W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

Acbba cdda
Bbbac ddac
Cddca bbca
Dabbc adde
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