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Literature JAMB/UTME TEST

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1. The main aim of caricature is to_______?

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One of the following writers is better known as  a playwright than as a novelist

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3. This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'I hear your call
I hear if far away
I hear it break the circle'
The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

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4.

The plot of a novel is best described as

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Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________

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6. A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?

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7. A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......

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In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?

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9. A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

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10. The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?

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11. An hero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?

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12.

This question is based on General Literary Principles
Empathy is achieved when the audience

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13.

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'...Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother.'
The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside
Exchange' depict the

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The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an "old" family fallen on evil days. The writer's tone is _______

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15. Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cos, he thought.

In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

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16. The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The technique used in bringing the plot of a play to an abrupt end is called

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18. That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

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19. This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'I hear your call
I hear if far away
I hear it break the circle'
The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

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20. This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of field unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind of old sun will know
Think how it woke the seeds
Woke, once, the clay of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are
sides full nerved still warm too hard
to stir was it, for this the clay grew
tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams
toil to break earth's sleep at all.
The poem can be described as

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21.

 A narrative poem must

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22.

Characterisation in a novel refers to the _____?

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23. A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

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24.

This question is based on General Literary Principles
In literary convention, 'aside' is used to

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This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.
For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

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26. A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as _________?

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27.

Literature is studied as a subject at school because

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28. That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

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This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Lakunel is presented as a

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30. A poem of 14 lines is known as__________

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31. In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

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32.

A travelogue is

 

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33. am informed the day recycles itself today
when I slept in the Lord in February
I blame no one for an untimely death
I bless Good for a noble departure-His words
The lord taketh the righteous away before evil days

The lines above express

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34.

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

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35.

The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

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36. This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
''From here the island of Fogo is a presence
At Sunset
The palm trees are slow singers of farewell
The sail on the sea
Writes in geometry of spume
- departure of he who remains
And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes
-journey of he who never left!''
Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

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37.

Empathy is achieved when the audience

 

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38.

le is a story in which________?

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39. The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

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40. Pick out the odd item

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