Jamb Literature in English 1983 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 1983

A novel is

A. A long prose narrative fiction
B. An interesting story about a hero
C. A prose writings that deals with various people
D. A long story in which homan characters represents abstract qualities
E. A prose writing about the lives of great and interesting people.

Question 37:

• JAMB 1983

Identify the odd item in the following list

A. Prose
B. Poetry
C. Melodrama
D. Catastrophe
E. Drama.

Question 38:

• JAMB 1983

'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death'.
Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?

A. Eddie Iroh
B. Onuora Nzukwu
C. Cyprian Ekwensi
D. Elechi Amadi
E. Chinua Achebe

Question 39:

• JAMB 1983

'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.
It is obvious from this passage that Simi is

A. Famous for her love of children
B. A goddess worshipped by children, women and men
C. A woman other women like to befriend
D. An alluring, irresistible man-snatcher
E. Disliked for teaching sex-education.

Question 40:

• JAMB 1983

The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called

A. Onomatopoeia
B. Assonance
C. Alliteration
D. Rhyme
E. Phonetics.