Jamb Literature in English 1981 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 1981

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses

A. Alternative rhymes
B. Heroic couplet
C. Bank verse
D. Octosyllabic metre
E. Terza rima.

Question 37:

• JAMB 1981

The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth

A. Death and burial
B. Man's mortality
C. The changes in seasons
D. The propitiation of ancestors
E. The falling od dew-drops.

Question 38:

• JAMB 1981

''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.
The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Traverse'indicate that the poet

A. Is a traveller
B. An explorer who collect things
C. Enjoys amorous adventures
D. Loves a woman
E. Has a deep-rooted love for his country

Question 39:

• JAMB 1981

The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because

A. People stay in their houses
B. Crimes are committed at night
C. The people can rest their tired bones at night
D. Black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
E. Night brings alot of enjoyment

Question 40:

• JAMB 1981

The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes

A. Racial prejudice
B. Falsehood
C. Truth
D. Moral indecision
E. Social classes.