2023 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5

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This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

A
alliteration
B
imagery
C
onomatopoeia
D
hyperbole
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This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

" The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

A
oxymoron
B
imagery
C
personification
D
synedoche
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A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

A
six
B
four
C
three
D
five
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This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

"To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

A
alliteration and personification
B
onomatopoeia and simile
C
metaphor and alliteration
D
simile and personification
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\'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
Did I go to college?

Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

The literary device used in the passage above is

A
onomatopoeia
B
parallelism
C
metaphor
D
simile
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This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

"She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is

A
alliteration
B
metaphor
C
simile
D
apostrophe
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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

A
trance
B
drowning
C
forgetfulness
D
labyrinth
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When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.
.
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

A
anger
B
protest
C
rejection
D
nausea
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The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

A
Catastasis
B
Catharsis
C
protasis
D
Epitasis
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"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a

A
Alliteration
B
Aspotrophe
C
Repetitiion
D
Assonance
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