1998 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

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'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

The literary device used here is

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A melodramatic play is based on

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In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as

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Romantic poetry emphasizes

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'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.

Oculi, 'Orphan'

These lines illustrate the use of

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'One man with a head

shaven clean as a potato

whispered to the rising sun,

a red eye wiped by a tattered

handkerchief of clouds.'

Mtshali, 'Men in Chains

The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

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'If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs

Making their mock at our accursed lot.'

Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'

The mood in the lines above is one of

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'

In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the

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'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.

But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.

Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'

The passage above is an example of