Jamb Literature in English 1988 Past Questions and Answers

Question 46:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!And I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety'. My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.The above poem essentially deals with the theme of

A. Old age
B. Childhood innocence
C. Beauty of the rainbow
D. Fatherhood

Question 47:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!And I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety'. My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

A. Personification
B. Oxymoron
C. Metonymy
D. Paradox

Question 48:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.Time out of mindthe going was easybecause of oil boom we glutted and plotted,as mad as a hatter'. The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

A. Assonance
B. Dissonance
C. Slapstick
D. Alliteration

Question 49:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.à am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?The writer of the above passage is

A. Jealous of rich and influential people
B. Overwhelmed by the power of money
C. Contemptuous of the poor
D. Indirectly exposing the negative influence of money

Question 50:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.Hark, Hark!Bow-WowThe watch dogs bark!Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hearThe strain of the struting chanticleerCry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of

A. Assonance
B. Onomatopeia
C. Alliteration
D. Consonance