Jamb Literature in English 1984 Past Questions and Answers

Question 31:

• JAMB 1984

'...A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.'
In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates

A. Living according to nature
B. The spirit of communal living
C. The ancestral spirit
D. The virtures of self reliance
E. Traditional festivals

Question 32:

• JAMB 1984

We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.
In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

A. Obierika
B. Okoli
C. Odukwe
D. Okonkwo
E. Ezenwa.

Question 33:

• JAMB 1984

A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as

A. Paradoxial
B. Metaphysical
C. Logical
D. Rhetorical
E. Leading

Question 34:

• JAMB 1984

Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as

A. Apostrophe
B. Personification
C. Denotation
D. Allusion
E. Imitation

Question 35:

• JAMB 1984

A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an

A. Epithet
B. Epigram
C. Invective
D. Impression
E. Analogy