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Question 71

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 72

jamb 2025

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

AAsia

BAfrica

CIndia

DEurope

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Question 73

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 74

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 75

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 76

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 77

jamb 2025

An understatement for the purpose of emphasis is known as

Apanegyric

Bhyperbole

Cclimax

Dlitotes

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Question 78

jamb 2025

Another form of literature that often employs verse is

Aparable

Bfable

Cdrama

Dprose

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Question 79

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 80

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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Question 81

jamb 2025

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Take my colt, gipsy, then! said young Earnshaw...and wheedle my father out of all he has

The statement above exemplifies

Apremonition

Bpoint of view

Cflashack

Depistolary

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Question 82

jamb 2025

Beauty in Donne's "The Good Morrow" represents the poet's persona's

Afriend

Blover

Cniece

Dmother

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Question 83

jamb 2025

The experience of the persona in Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi" is

Achallenging but fulfilling

Brough and hopeless

Csmooth and exciting

Dtortuous and frustrating

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Question 84

jamb 2025

The subject matter of Angelou's "Caged Bird" is

Athe abolition of slavery and the freedom of caged people

Bthe limitation of racially discriminated African Americans

Csegregation and racial discrimination

Dthe colonial invasion and slave trade

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Question 85

jamb 2025

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

A thousand explosions in the belly of the earth
Bleeding rigs, bursting pipes
The oil flows
From the earth's sickbed
Because
The oil only flows
When the earth bleeds

The subject matter of the excerpt above is

Adespoliation

Bcontestation

Cunification

Drevolution

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Question 86

jamb 2025

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

Jimmy's feeling about Alison's upper-class status is that of

Aindifference

Badoration

Cresentment

Dadmiration

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Question 87

jamb 2025

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

The chief of Ilujinle village is

ALakunle

BBaroka

CSadiku

DSidi

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Question 88

jamb 2025

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

The overriding depiction of mystery and terror in the novel accounts for its classification as a

Aneo-classical novel

Bgothic novel

Csatiric fiction

Dscience fiction

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Question 89

waec 2024

Farewell, sweet playfellow refers to

ADemetrius

BHermia

CHelena

DLysander

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Question 90

waec 2024

The underlined expression means being

Acareful

Bfaithful

Cflirtatious

Dreckless

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