Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 51
jamb 2018

The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son

Bigger kills Mary due to______?

AFear
BHatred
CEnvy
DDistrust
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Question 52
jamb 2018

The main aim of caricature is to_______?

Adescribe
Bexpose
Cemphasise
Dridicule
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Question 53
jamb 2018

The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?

Aeuphemism
Bsynecdoche
Ccatharsis
Doxymoron
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Question 54
jamb 2018

A fable is a story in which________?

Aallegations are made about characters
Banimal is or things are used as characters
Cthere is an important setting
Dthe story is told in poetic form
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Question 55
jamb 2018

A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

ADrama
Bcomedy
CProse
DPoetry
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Question 56
jamb 2018

A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?

Aallegory
Bassonance
Cmetre
Donomatopoeia
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Question 57
jamb 2018

Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________

Amovement and gesture for the screen and audience
Bspeech, movement and gesture for the stage only
Cspeech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
Dspeech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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Question 58
jamb 2018

In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

Aaside
Bsoliloquy
Cacoustic
Dtone
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Question 59
jamb 2018

In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?

Adevice in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
Bsituation in which a character speaks or acts against the tread of events
Cdifficult situation which defies a local or rational resolution
Ddevice in which the actor act on stage
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Question 60
jamb 2018

Characterisation in a novel refers to the _____?

Awriter's opinion of the characters
Bway the characters are revealed to the reader
Ccharacters and the way they behave
Dreader's opinion of the character
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Question 61
jamb 2018

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as _________?

Acharacteristics
Ballegory
Cmetaphor
Dparallelism
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