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Literature in English 1994 JAMB Past Questions

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"Stream of consciousness" is the name for
  • A. a narrative mode that produces a character's random thoughts and associations
  • B. an italian rhyme scheme brought into vogue in the sixteenth century
  • C. a stage device in the actor addresses the audience directly
  • D. a cultural phenomenon of the eighteenth century
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"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
  • A. clean up broken bottles
  • B. come to self-knowledge
  • C. realize your vision is blurred
  • D. surrender to your weakness
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"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

  • A. first person narrator
  • B. protagonist
  • C. antagonist
  • D. omniscient narrator
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"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
  • A. alliteration
  • B. free verse
  • C. repetition
  • D. sarcasm
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"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
  • A. suffering from insomnia
  • B. one of the numerous living in poverty
  • C. not an ordinary individual
  • D. a difficult individual
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