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This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

A picaresque novel is a
  • A. work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  • B. psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  • C. futuristic novel set in outer space
  • D. work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1990
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'If it is true that the world talks too much
then let's all keep quiet
and hear the eloquence
of silence'
If it is True' by Richard Ntini
One striking device used by the poet above is

  • A. rhythm
  • B. contrast
  • C. alliteration
  • D. end-rhyme
View Answer & Discuss (4) JAMB 1991
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

The Fulani Creation Story' suggests that the basic problem of man is

  • A. blindness
  • B. worry
  • C. death
  • D. pride
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1991
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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....
Iyase's entreaty comes when

  • A. the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  • B. the whitemen attack Benin
  • C. Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  • D. Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1992
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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

At the end of Ovonramwen's discussion with Gallway and Hutton, one can conclude that Ovonramwen is

  • A. fascinated by their gifts
  • B. eager to sign the trade treaty presented
  • C. suspicious about their real intentions
  • D. ready to welcome them
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1992
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