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"He considers also a little fragile,because artistic:
I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A little
pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and
straightening up to bring out the best in me."
Based on Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, the "me" in the above passage is seen as
Adynamic, to be cherished
Ban object to be protected
Can ornament to be admired
Dsomething to be tended
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Question 2
jamb1994
"Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly
backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of
their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They
cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than
people, she thinks for the thousandth time.No
ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."
Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are
Amore radiant
Bmore colourful
Cless awkward
Dless scheming
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Question 3
jamb1994
"In the cold hand of death...
his mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike
shrunk to a sub-soil grub
his head was hallowed and his brain
on scales-was this a trick to prove
fore-knowledge after death?"
Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of
Ajuxtaposition
Brhetoric
Ciambic meter
Dallusions
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Question 4
jamb1994
"Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are corals made
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fade."
The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is
Abaab
Babab
Cabba
Daabb
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Question 5
jamb1994
"Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing
Nor ever did a wise one,"
Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an example of
Apraise poem
Blamentation
Can epigram
Dsatiric poem
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Question 6
jamb1994
"The poet needs to be up at night,when the world
sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders
forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where
the underside of our dreams fester."
Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is
Asuffering from insomnia
Bone of the numerous living in poverty
Cnot an ordinary individual
Da difficult individual
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Question 7
jamb1994
"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea."
Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is
Aalliteration
Bfree verse
Crepetition
Dsarcasm
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Question 8
jamb1994
"But everything does have a beginning, and so if I
am to tell this story, I must begin. Yet I do not know
the starting point of my tale."
Based on Nawal El Saadawi's The Circling Song, the speaker of the above statement is the
Afirst person narrator
Bprotagonist
Cantagonist
Domniscient narrator
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Question 9
jamb1994
"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you
can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide
going out revealing whatever has been thrown away
and sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting
pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin
you've made."
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
The passage above claims that when "love recedes", you
Aclean up broken bottles
Bcome to self-knowledge
Crealize your vision is blurred
Dsurrender to your weakness
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Question 10
jamb1994
"Stream of consciousness" is the name for
Aa narrative mode that produces a character's random thoughts and associations
Ban italian rhyme scheme brought into vogue in the sixteenth century
Ca stage device in the actor addresses the audience directly
Da cultural phenomenon of the eighteenth century
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Question 11
jamb1994
What basically distinguishes Literature from other disciplines is its
Ause of creative imagination
Bexposition of human experience
Ccommunication of ideas
Dportrayal of places
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Question 12
jamb1994
A sub-plot is
Aa major turn or complication in the main story
Bthe second part of the main plot
Ca secondary plot dealing with a different theme
Dan aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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Question 13
jamb1994
The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called
Aa metaphor
Ba simile
Ca personification
Dan irony
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Question 14
jamb1994
An over-used expression is
Aa cliche
Ba cacophony
Can epigram
Dan archetype
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Question 15
jamb1994
A didactic piece is one in which the writer
Ateaches human lessons
Bcondemns human foibles
Cdictates to his readers
Ddiscusses dialectic themes
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Question 16
jamb1994
The major source of action in any narrative is
Aexposition
Bconflict
Cclimax
Depilogue
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Question 17
jamb1994
"O Julius Caesar, thou are mighty yet
Thy spirit walks abroad."
Based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the statement above is
Aa ghost story
Bsuperstition
Can apostrophe
Dan exaggeration
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Question 18
jamb1994
The expression "The sun kisses the earth" is a
Asimile
Bmetaphor
Cpersonification
Dparadox
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Question 19
jamb1994
Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as
Abrave and resourceful
Bfrightened and beastly
Creligious and orderly
Danarchic and savage
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Question 20
jamb1994
"You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close
close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why
things are what they are?"
Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents
