Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 61
jamb 2025

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

Bullying in the play is revenge tactics on

Arejection
Bsocial class
Cassault
Dacceptance
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Question 62
jamb 2025

Decked with dances by baobabs over balances

The above line in Neto's The Grieved Lands is an example of

Aassonance
Bconsonance
Conomatopoeia
Dalliteration
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Question 63
jamb 2025

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

The division of the play into morning, noon and night signifies unity of

Aaction
Bspace
Cplace
Dtime
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Question 64
jamb 2025

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

The bear in the novel symbolically represents

AJimmy Porter
BAlison Porter
CHelena Charles
DCliff Lewis
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Question 65
jamb 2025

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

It all began like a dream. You know, that sort of dream which seems to have originated from nowhere, yet one was always aware of its existence...

The technique used in the line above is

Astream of consciousness
Bforeshadowing
Comniscient point of view
Dflashback
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Question 66
jamb 2025

Sesay's "The Song of the Women of my Land" is

Apanegyric
Bfree verse
Csatirical
Dblank verse
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Question 67
jamb 2025

In Lawrence's "Bat", the poetic persona concludes the poem by stating

Ahis aversion for bats
Bthe beauty of nature
Cthe beauty of bats
Dthe importance of bats
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Question 68
jamb 2025

I shall booze and zoom myself home

The diction used in the above excerpt in Onu's "A Government Driver on His Retirement" is

Aonomatopoeic
Bveiled
Ccomplex
Dformalised
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Question 69
jamb 2025

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

The temporal setting of the novel is in

A1980s Ghana and 1960s Nigeria
B1960s Nigeria and 1980s Ghana
C1960s Ghana and 1980s Nigeria
D1940s Ghana and 1960s Nigeria
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Question 70
jamb 2025

The persona in Lade Worsonu's "Raider of the Treasure Trove" warns against

Awar
Bgreed
Cpower
Drage
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Question 71
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 72
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 73
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 74
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 75
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 76
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 77
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 78
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 79
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 80
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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