Jamb Literature in English 2019 Past Questions and Answers

Question 26:

• JAMB 2019

'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'
The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

A. Allusion
B. An ode
C. Metaphor
D. Apostrophe

Question 27:

• JAMB 2019

The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________

A. Expressed through rhetorical questions
B. Condemnation
C. Expressed through the use of innuendos
D. Concern

Question 28:

• JAMB 2019

... is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece

A. Storyline
B. Narrative hook
C. Plot
D. Suspense

Question 29:

• JAMB 2019

In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

A. Personification
B. Metonymy
C. Metaphor
D. Allusion

Question 30:

• JAMB 2019

Read the poem and answer questions
At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.


The theme of the poem is__________

A. Drought and heat
B. Abomination and retribution
C. Sickness and death
D. Famine and disease