JAMB Literature in English questions: Poetry: imagery, sound and structure

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1. Question 21· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   In 'Slowly the silver moon slides over the sea', the repeated 's' sound is

   • Aonomatopoeia
   • Bassonance
   • Calliteration
   • Da pun

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2. Question 22· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words is

   • Aassonance
   • Balliteration
   • Crhyme
   • Donomatopoeia

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3. Question 23· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   An octave is a stanza of

   • Asix lines
   • Beight lines
   • Cfour lines
   • Dthree lines

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4. Question 24· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   The persona of a poem is

   • Athe poet's real name
   • Bthe speaker or voice in the poem
   • Cthe title
   • Dthe reader

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5. Question 25· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning, such as 'buzz' and 'hiss', is

   • Aeuphemism
   • Balliteration
   • Conomatopoeia
   • Dassonance

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6. Question 26· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   Poetry with no regular rhyme or metre is

   • Aa sonnet
   • Bblank verse
   • Cfree verse
   • Dan ode

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7. Question 27· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

   A group of lines forming a unit within a poem is a

   • Acaesura
   • Brefrain
   • Cstanza
   • Dmetre

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