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Literature in English 1984 JAMB Past Questions

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The speaker in 'When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to

  • A. to display bhis magical powers as a traditional priest
  • B. show the poetic beauty of incantatory songs
  • C. show the marvel about natural objects
  • D. practise witchcraft on his enemies
  • E. psychologically and magically disarm his enemies.
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'We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers' footprints on the long shores.'
The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor's 'More messenger' is

  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. repetition
  • C. assonance
  • D. alliteration
  • E. consonance
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18

In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

  • A. welcome and totally pleasant
  • B. unwelcome and unpleasant
  • C. dangerous and uninviting
  • D. seductive and threatening
  • E. beautiful and wholesome.
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In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

  • A. welcome and totally pleasant
  • B. unwelcome and unpleasant
  • C. dangerous and uninviting
  • D. seductive and threatening
  • E. beautiful and wholesome.
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'Clothes were like tattered flags
Flying off
To expose dangling breasts
As jaggered blinding flashes
Rumble, tremble, and crack
Amidst the smell of fired smoke
And the pelting march of the storm'

The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of
  • A. peace and quiet
  • B. contentment and calm
  • C. anger and anxiety
  • D. commotion and confusion
  • E. poverty and want
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