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Literature in English 1995 JAMB Past Questions

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'what time night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise'.
J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'
Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?
  • A. Alliteration
  • B. Assonance
  • C. Hyperbole
  • D. Onomatopoeia
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as
  • A. assonance
  • B. apostrophe
  • C. elegy
  • D. personification
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing
  • A. retrospection
  • B. flashback
  • C. historical drama
  • D. dramatic shift
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'I love to pass my fingers,
As tide through weeds of the sea
And wind the tall fern-fronds
Through the strands of your hair
Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'
J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'
The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is
  • A. metaphor
  • B. alliteration
  • C. rhythm
  • D. simile
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This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You Kiss her on the cheek
As white people do,
You Kiss her open-sore lips
As white people do,
You suck slimy saliva
From each other's mouths,
As white people do.'
Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'
The writer of the lines above uses repetition
  • A. for emphasis
  • B. to underscore disapproval
  • C. to enhance irony
  • D. for imitation
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