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Literature in English 1980 JAMB Past Questions

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When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

  • A. his bed has always uncomfortable
  • B. he has sleepless nights
  • C. he has no literary pretensions
  • D. he is well-versed in rhetorics
  • E. he is a poor sleeper.
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'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

  • A. analogies
  • B. rhetorical questions
  • C. apostrophes
  • D. exaggerations
  • E. similes.
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'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....
  • A. The end
  • B. a lover's Hope
  • C. Joy's of being in love
  • D. The journey of life
  • E. Glad lover
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''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.

The passage achieve realism through the use of
  • A. details
  • B. simple words
  • C. the long sentence
  • D. the past tense
  • E. punctuation.
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'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to
  • A. fun
  • B. ill heath
  • C. carelessness
  • D. sacrifice
  • E. dicting
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