Literature in English JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

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A word that sounds like what it names is a (n)

  • A. alliteration
  • B. assonance
  • C. onomatopoeia
  • D. rhyme
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44

Literary works are classified into

  • A. cantose
  • B. episodes
  • C. eras
  • D. genres
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45

A couplet is formed by

  • A. five lines of poetry
  • B. two rhymed lines of poetry
  • C. two lines of poetry
  • D. five rhymed lines of poetry
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46

An elegy is a poem

  • A. commemorating a birth
  • B. commemorating a national celebration
  • C. mourning the dead
  • D. mourning the passage of time
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47

A short speech at the end a play is the

  • A. epilogue
  • B. denouement
  • C. peroration
  • D. conclusion
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