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Literature in English 1984 JAMB Past Questions

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'Political languages is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure minds.'

The writer here suggesting that political language is
  • A. convincing
  • B. deceptive
  • C. interesting
  • D. destructive
  • E. commendable.
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'The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.'

In describing the action of the climber, the writer has used the literary device of
  • A. simile
  • B. hyperbole
  • C. irony
  • D. onomotopoeia
  • E. personification.
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48
'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that
  • A. the sun setb after the arrival of Stanley
  • B. Stanley was shut out of Western civilization
  • C. Stanley symbolizes the advert of colonization
  • D. Stanley was very well recieved
  • E. Stanley thought he would be eaten up by the natives.
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I am not afraid of anything ;, he told them 'I have done almost everything in this world. I have committed all crimes you can think of and been called for most of them. I have been in prison more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years. In recounting his criminal life, this speaker's tone is
  • A. repentant
  • B. boastful
  • C. regretful
  • D. subdued
  • E. remorseful
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50
'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'

The last statement in this passage is an example of
  • A. understatement
  • B. overstatement
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. sarcastic humour
  • E. poetic diction
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