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Literature in English 2014 JAMB Past Questions

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He put himself in uniform, made one for
his five-year-old son, and marched with
the infant from dawn till noon every
market day, on the main road singing
'Kayiwawa beturi...

The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as
  • A. a soldier
  • B. abnormal
  • C. energetic
  • D. a policeman
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12
He is a faithful liar
The line above is an example of
  • A. euphemism
  • B. antithesis
  • C. epigram
  • D. oxymoron
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13

Fights by the book of arithmetic
The figure of speech in the line above is

  • A. litotes
  • B. innuendo
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. euphemism
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And when you trudge on your horny Pads
gullied like the soles of modern shoes
Pads that even jiggers cannot conquer

Horny pads in the lines above is a reference to a

  • A. sole of a pauper
  • B. sole of a soldier
  • C. policeman
  • D. madman
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15
"Lift not the painted veil which those who live
call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it mimic all we would believe
With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.'

P.B. Shelley:Sonnet

The stanza above is an example of a
  • A. couplet
  • B. sestet
  • C. quatrain
  • D. sonnet
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