Jamb Literature in English 1980 Past Questions and Answers

Question 31:

• JAMB 1980

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

A. What he actually witnessed
B. An imaginary event
C. What he read about in the pspers
D. What the prison wader told him
E. What everyone knows.

Question 32:

• JAMB 1980

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

A. His bed has always uncomfortable
B. He has sleepless nights
C. He has no literary pretensions
D. He is well-versed in rhetorics
E. He is a poor sleeper.

Question 33:

• JAMB 1980

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

A. Analogies
B. Rhetorical questions
C. Apostrophes
D. Exaggerations
E. Similes.

Question 34:

• JAMB 1980

'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....

A. The end
B. A lover's Hope
C. Joy's of being in love
D. The journey of life
E. Glad lover

Question 35:

• JAMB 1980

''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.
The passage achieve realism through the use of

A. Details
B. Simple words
C. The long sentence
D. The past tense
E. Punctuation.