Jamb Literature in English 1988 Past Questions and Answers

Question 41:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'I find no peace, and all my war is done;Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;And nought I have and all the world in season'. The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

A. Oxymoron
B. Alliteration
C. Euphemism
D. Hyperbole

Question 42:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back' Violence by Festus Lyayi The greater emphasis in this passage is on the

A. Feling of doubt
B. Feeling of despair
C. Feeling of desperation
D. Sence of failure

Question 43:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?'' Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti The mood of the quotation in this passage is

A. Tragically comic
B. Deadly serious
C. Playfully serious
D. Humorously comic

Question 44:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are

A. Understatement and hyperbole
B. Irony and metaphor
C. Simile and personification
D. Irony and understatement

Question 45:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'Created half to rise, and half to fal;Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of

A. Zeugma
B. Oxymoron
C. Antithesis
D. Conceit