2000 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5

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Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of

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Mock-heroic poetry elevates

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Lineation refers to

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'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace'' Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.
The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is

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In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks.
Ezeulu does not want to refuse the whiteman's call and so he is sending his son!
Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
The lines above illustrate the use of

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'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.
Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'
The stanza above succinctly presents the

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'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...
Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'
In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

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Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...
I have never know you but your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....
David Diop, Africa'
in the lines above, Diop uses

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LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):
Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.
LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?
WILLY: No, nothing happened.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Linda's words above express a feeling of

» This question is based on Literary Principles.
LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):
Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.
LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?
WILLY: No, nothing happened.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Willy's first words show that his coming back is