1997 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

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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. P…

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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannic…

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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.The novel is about growth because

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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.Susan concealed the true parentage of Elizabeth Jane in order to

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This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.Habu Adams ends up in the novel as a

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This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.What is the author's final message in the novel?

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.Point of view is a technique that is commonly associated with

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.What is an epic?

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.Which of the following are literary genres?

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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.Which of the following events marks the climax of the novel ?

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This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.A major irony in the Henchard-Farfrae relationship is that

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.The term assonance refers of

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.Hyperbole refers specifically to

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,I summon up remembrance of things past,...Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'The lines above contain the predominant use of

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line mu…

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.When a protagonist is purged of the dominant emotions of pity and fear at the end of a tragedy, it is called

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.Sound effects in the theater are realizable through the use of

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.'There was something very disturbing about his features today, there was something which suggested an untidiness of a sort rather like a cotton dress washed in salty…

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays…

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