Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 41
jamb 2025

Niyi Osundare's "The Leader and the Led" is a fable because of the

Alies in it
Bsimplicity of the language
Cwitty nature of the poem
Duse of animals who act as humans
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Question 42
jamb 2025

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class CItizen.

Adah faces discrimination based on

Agender and race
Beducation and social status
Cage and religion
Dnationality and language
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Question 43
jamb 2025

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

Lakunle is portrayed as the foil of

Athe stranger
BSidi
CBaroka
DSadiku
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Question 44
jamb 2025

This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri Unexpected Joy at Dawn.

The main conflict in the novel is

Alove
Bgreed
Chealth
Dcorruption
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Question 45
jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

From the events in the novel, one can conclude that Joseph is

Astraightforward
Bhypocritical
Camiable
Dunserious
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Question 46
jamb 2025

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger

The setting of the play is

AClassical England
BRomantic England
CVictorian England
DElizabethan England
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Question 47
jamb 2025

This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn

The narrative technique employed in the novel is

Asecond person point of view
Bthird-person point of view
Cfirst-person narrative point of view
Dfirst and second person point of view
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Question 48
jamb 2025

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Repetition is a literary device employed for the purpose of

Asatire
Bmelody
Cemphasis
Drhyme
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Question 49
jamb 2025

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

No one? Do you mean there was no one
To bar unwanted strangers from my privacy?

Who made this statement?

ALakunle
BBaroka
CSidi
DSadiku
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Question 50
jamb 2025

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger

Jimmy's first love, who is ten years older than him, is

AMiss Drury
BHelena
CAlison
DMadeline
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Question 51
jamb 2025

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A multifaceted character in literature is regarded as

Aflat character
Bround character
Ccomic character
Dlucid character
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Question 52
jamb 2025

The spatial setting of Senghor's "Black Woman" is

AAsia
BAfrica
CIndia
DEurope
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Question 53
jamb 2025

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

The sunset steals our youth
We must depart
We must follow the trail of the killer-bird
Or else sleep the sleep of terror

The excerpt above portrays the theme of

Amortality
Bnature
Cnurture
Daffection
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Question 54
jamb 2025

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

I was there when it happened to your father

The line above is in reference to

Athe wrestler's impotency
BLakunle's impotency
Cthe traveler's impotency
DBaroka's impotency
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Question 55
jamb 2025

This question is based on Literary Principles

The choice of words used by a writer in a literary work is called

Acliche
Bidiom
Cdiction
Dtone
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Question 56
jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back.
I don't care how long I will wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!
                                                                   
Who made the statement?                                                       

AHeathcliff
BEdgar
CLockwood
DIsabella
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Question 57
jamb 2025

An understatement for the purpose of emphasis is known as

Apanegyric
Bhyperbole
Cclimax
Dlitotes
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Question 58
jamb 2025

Another form of literature that often employs verse is

Aparable
Bfable
Cdrama
Dprose
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Question 59
jamb 2025

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

The narrative of the novel centres around

AIke
BFrancis
CMrs Ofili
DAdah
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Question 60
jamb 2025

He lifted his head from his drinking
as cattles do,
And looked at me vaguely, as
drinking cattles do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue
from his lips, and mused
a moment 
(D.H. Lawrence)

The poetic object in the extract above is

Aan elephant
Ba bird
Ca man
Da snake
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