Jamb Literature in English 2011 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 2011

These questions are based on general Literary principles
Plays are basically meant to

A. Change the world
B. Be read for pleasure
C. Be presented on stage
D. Keep people out of trouble

Question 37:

• JAMB 2011

These questions are based on general Literary principles
A character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is

A. Round character
B. Stock character
C. Static character
D. Flat character

Question 38:

• JAMB 2011

These questions are based on general Literary principles
The plot of a story generally refers to the

A. Intrigue made by a character against the hero
B. Way in which the events of the story are organized
C. Way in which the writer begin the story
D. Way the writer ends the story

Question 39:

• JAMB 2011

These questions are based on general Literary principles
The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is

A. Trochaic decametre
B. Iambic pentametre
C. Anapestic metre
D. Dactylic metre

Question 40:

• JAMB 2011

These question are based on literary Appreciation.
Theseus:
now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour Draw on space for happy day bring in Another moon. But, O, me thinks how slow.The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,Like to a step-drama or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The literary device used in the excerpt above are

A. Personification and simile
B. Alliteration and synechdocheand
C. Rhyme and refrain
D. Irony and suspense