Jamb Literature in English 1982 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

A. Paradox
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
E. Onomatopoeia.

Question 37:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The above passage derives its theme from

A. The repetition of nature images
B. Contrastive use of images
C. The consistency of its rhyme scheme
D. The use of the same figures of speech
E. The uses of apostrophyes.

Question 38:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The dominant images in the above passage are

A. Cosmic
B. Metallic
C. Harsh
D. Sensuous
E. Domestic.

Question 39:

• JAMB 1982

As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of

A. Autobiography
B. Sermon
C. Travelogue
D. Epistle
E. Biography.

Question 40:

• JAMB 1982

When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means

A. Eliza faces the threat of premature death
B. Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
C. Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
D. Eliza will not survive her illness
E. Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.