Literature In English 1980 Jamb Past Questions and Answers

Question 41 :

• JAMB 1980

'She came in silken Drapes' is about the

A. Virtures of love
B. Killing of a coral snake
C. Danger of false love
D. Beautiful butterfly
E. Sleeping leopards.

Question 42 :

• JAMB 1980

In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes

A. Flood
B. Ancestor
C. Modernity
D. Sacrifise
E. Golden girl

Question 43 :

• JAMB 1980

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is

A. Suffering and oppression
B. Laughter and happiness
C. Singing and merry making
D. Love for a woman
E. Long journey

Question 44 :

• JAMB 1980

Poetry deals with one of the following

A. Emotion only
B. Death only
C. Ideas only
D. Emotion and ideas
E. Beauty only

Question 45 :

• JAMB 1980

'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

A. Alternative rhymes
B. Triplets
C. Couplets
D. Free verse
E. Blank verse