JSS2 school exam

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Welcome to your 3rd Term Examination on RAES JSS2 (2025)

OBJECTIVES

1. The expression of unpleasant experience in a mild way is called --------

2. A long narrative poem which tells the story of great or heroic deeds of a hero is a/an ---------

3. All are elements of drama EXCEPT --------

4. A saying handed down from generation to generation which contains a superstitious belief is called -------

5. The choice of words an author makes use of in his work of art is called -----

6. The figure of speech used when a person talks to something or someone who is not present as though present is called -----

Identify the figure of speech used in these expressions below

7. " Her sorrowful smile saddened my heart"

8. " His pride deflated like an empty balloon"

9. A type of poem used to praise the beauty or quality of a person or thing is called -------

10. A type of narrative story that is longer than novella is known as -----

SUBJECTIVES

Complete the following proverbial statements with the correct words/phrase

11. You don't ------ from peter to pay Paul

12. Make hay while the ------- shines

13. The early bird catches the ------

14. A bird at hand worths more than nine in the ---------

15. A stubborn fly will follow the corpse to the ---------

THEORY

1. Explain the meaning of these idiomatic expressions below.

a. To keep one's head above the water

b. To eat one's heart out

c. To make bricks without straw

d. To send someone to Coventry

e. To braze a trail

2. State the correct version of the following wrong sentences below

a. I am coming ( while you are going away)

b. The book is your own

d. Please,off the fan

C. We will write the examination tomorrow

e. They have brought the light

3. Make a sentence with each of the following words (verbs can be used in past tense)

a. Improve b. advice c. abandon. d. rectify e. disclose