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Question 921
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have and all the world in season'.
The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

Aoxymoron
Balliteration
Ceuphemism
Dhyperbole
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Question 922
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

Ain most kinds of poems
Bonly in free verse
Cuniquely in blank verse
Dpeculiarly in rhyming couplets
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Question 923
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

Adiscover the beauty of a literary work
Bfinds faults in a literary work
Canalyse and evaluate a literary work
Dcompare literary works
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Question 924
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

Alines
Bstanzas
Crefrains
Dpoems
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Question 925
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An autobiography becomes a literary work when

Ait is a faithful account of the author's
Bit underlines the salient events in the author's life
Cit relates the author's life to the major events of the day
Dits value resides principally in its style
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Question 926
jamb 1988

A dirge is a

Aromantic poem
Bpoem on nature
Cpoem of expectations
Dpoem of lament
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Question 927
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Genres of literature aptly describes

Atradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
Bode, elegy, sonnet
Cshort story, novel, autobiography
Dpoetry, prose , drama
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Question 928
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as

Amime
Bparadox
Ccriticism
Dparody
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Question 929
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is

Apastoral
Bballad
Cromance
Depic
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Question 930
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
The persons who take part in a play are sometimes referred to as

Aaudience
Bdramatists
Cdramatis personae
Dcomedians
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Question 931
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A play is called a comedy when

Athere is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
Bnobody dies in it
Cthere is no serious quarrel in it
Dthere is a happy resolution of contradictions
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Question 932
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here?

AAbel Magwich
BMr. Wopsle
CMr Punblechook
DJoe Gargery
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Question 933
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes

Acruelty to servants
Baristocratic snobbery
Cgossiping females
Dover-indulgent parents
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Question 934
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through

Athe complaints of Biddy
Bthe pretensions of Pumblechook
Chis rejection by Estella
Dthe death of his sister
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Question 935
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; - such is Life!
Joe summarized his wife's behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery's quarrel with

APip
BOrlick
CJoe
DBiddy
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Question 936
jamb 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was

Aborn an eccentric
Bcruelly ill-used by a man
Cby nature nasty and shy of company
Dbadly brought up
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Question 937
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The story in the book is told from the point of view of

ANwabunor
BObanua
Ca first person narrator
Da third person narrator
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Question 938
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

Acannot spell correctly
Bcannot speak English correctly
Cis a stranger
Dis very angry
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Question 939
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

Afood
Bjob
Csecurity
Dpower
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Question 940
jamb 1988

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

Athe priest was only an impostor
Bsuperstition reigns superme in Ozala
Ctraditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
Dthe pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred
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