Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 1
jamb 2017

This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days

Yaremi's main job is

Aselling cassava
Bharvesting cassava
Cdyeing taffeta cloths
Dsewing taffeta cloths
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Question 2
jamb 2017

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

Who impregnated Aloho?

AThe Commissioner
BChief Haladu
CJustice Odili
DInspector Inaku
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Question 3
jamb 2017
_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work
ACast
BSummary
CFlaw
DPlot
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Question 4
jamb 2017

This question is based on Faceless by Amma Darko

What is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send her away from home?

Ashe chose to go to the street
Bher mother remarried
Cshe steals her mother things
Dshe wants to poison her boyfriend
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Question 5
jamb 2017

Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is ________?

Aa celebration of life
Ban appreciation of nature
Ca demystification of death
Da celebration of the final passage
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Question 6
jamb 2017

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

According to the highest estimate, how many ships in the Turkish fleet were said to head for the Island of Cyprus?

A107
B230
C200
D140
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Question 7
jamb 2017

This question is based on Amma Darko's Facesless.

The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because

AIt only occurs in Ghana
BIt could be found only in Africa
CIt is common to almost all nations of the world
Dthe novel is read in all parts of the world
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Question 8
jamb 2017
"I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ?
Asynedole
Beuphemism
Crepetition
Dirony
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Question 9
jamb 2017
This question is based on General Literacy Principles

A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________?
Aallusion
Bjuxtaposition
Csymbolism
Dmemoir
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Question 10
jamb 2017
This question is based on Literary.

Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in Biafra

The speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of
Aadmiration
Bcondemnation
Cspite
Drespect
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Question 11
jamb 2017
This question is based on General Literacy Principles

An example of a narrative poem is ________?
Aelegy
Bepic
Cdirge
Dsonnet
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Question 12
jamb 2017

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

“ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ” Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl

The writer of the passage above is ________?

Aassertive
Bretrogressive
Coptimistic
Dantagonistic
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Question 13
jamb 2017

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

The narrative style adopted in the novel is

Asecond persons
Bthird person
Cinterior monologue
Dfirst person
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Question 14
jamb 2017

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called

Apsychological novel
Bpicaresque
Cautobiography
Dsatirical novel
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Question 15
jamb 2017

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

The play portrays the judiciary as

Aunserious and lenient
Bconsistent and just
Ccorrupt and weak
Dpatronising and self-righteous
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Question 16
jamb 2017
This question is based on General Literacy Principles

At the peak of the trumpeter's performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________?
Ametaphor and paradox
Bsimile and metaphor
Csimile and personification
Dparadox and simile
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Question 17
jamb 2017

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

The Two dominant themes of the play are

Ahonesty and decency
Bimmorality and greed
Cpoverty and education
Dweeding and planting
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Question 18
jamb 2017

This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello.

"...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?....."

The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______?

AOthello
BIago
CBrabantio
DRoderigo
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Question 19
jamb 2017

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

... goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast'

The literary device in the extract above from Herbert's The Pulley is

Ametonymy
Bpersonification
Coxymoron
Dirony
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Question 20
jamb 2017
"Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face"

The excerpt above exemplifies _______?
AIrony
Bsynedoche
Csymbolism
Deuphemism
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