Jamb Literature in English 1994 Past Questions and Answers

Question 41:

• JAMB 1994

What basically distinguishes Literature from other disciplines is its

A. Use of creative imagination
B. Exposition of human experience
C. Communication of ideas
D. Portrayal of places

Question 42:

• JAMB 1994

"Stream of consciousness" is the name for

A. A narrative mode that produces a character's random thoughts and associations
B. An italian rhyme scheme brought into vogue in the sixteenth century
C. A stage device in the actor addresses the audience directly
D. A cultural phenomenon of the eighteenth century

Question 43:

• JAMB 1994

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you
can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide
going out revealing whatever has been thrown away
and sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting
pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin
you've made."
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
The passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

A. Clean up broken bottles
B. Come to self-knowledge
C. Realize your vision is blurred
D. Surrender to your weakness

Question 44:

• JAMB 1994

"But everything does have a beginning, and so if I
am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know
the starting point of my tale."
Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

A. First person narrator
B. Protagonist
C. Antagonist
D. Omniscient narrator

Question 45:

• JAMB 1994

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea."
Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

A. Alliteration
B. Free verse
C. Repetition
D. Sarcasm