Jamb Literature in English 1986 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1986

The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth-
The sweeping up the heart
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

A. Misplaced anxiety
B. Great relief
C. Solemn resignation
D. Morbid fear.

Question 47:

• JAMB 1986

'Chini was breathing with a love ripeness in her eye. She was elegant, sophistication, and Nigerian costume with charm. her every movement stimulated a flow of poetry from Francois and an ebb of embarrassment from her. she called him "My mad French lover".'
The tone of this passage is

A. Sensual
B. Detached
C. Playful
D. Stimulating.

Question 48:

• JAMB 1986

'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'
In this passage, axe of intemperance means

A. Hot temper
B. Cool temper
C. Evil mind
D. Recklessness.

Question 49:

• JAMB 1986

From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.
The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

A. Hyperbole
B. Understatement
C. Sarcasm
D. Synecdoche.

Question 50:

• JAMB 1986

'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of

A. Innuendo
B. Paradox
C. Euphemism
D. Allusion.