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Literature in English 2002 JAMB Past Questions

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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...'
Shakespeare, Othello
From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is
  • A. disobedient
  • B. quarrelsome
  • C. servile
  • D. scheming
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'
Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the

  • A. repetition of consonant sounds
  • B. multiplication of medial consonant sounds
  • C. repetition of initial consonant sound
  • D. duplication of consonant sounds clusters
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes
  • A. a long strike
  • B. Christmas and Easter holidays
  • C. a long period of hard work
  • D. a long vacation
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called
  • A. enjambment
  • B. caesura
  • C. apostrophe
  • D. scansion
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This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as
  • A. litterateur
  • B. laureattes
  • C. literaria
  • D. literati
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