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JAMB Literature in English 2007 Question 44

Question 44

Literary Appreciation: Poetry
JAMB 2007: Mazisi Kunene, The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain (extract)
The passage, as printed

From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being

  1. A.paradoxical
  2. B.antithetical
  3. C.illogical
  4. D.tautological.
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: A (paradoxical)

Explanation

'A beginning that was the end of an era' seems self-contradictory but contains a truth (one age ends as another begins), which is a paradox.