Jamb Literature in English 2023 Past Questions and Answers

Question 11:

• JAMB 2023

The combination of two or more metaphors is called

A. Monometaphor
B. Dymetaphor
C. Mixed metaphor
D. Combined metaphor

Question 12:

• JAMB 2023

________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

A. Referrals
B. Chiasmus
C. Metonymy
D. Allusions

Question 13:

• JAMB 2023

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

A. Props
B. Parody
C. Pyrrhic
D. Pathos

Question 14:

• JAMB 2023

This question is based on BAT.

Use the excerpt to answer this question.
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

A. Rhetorical question
B. Imagery
C. Alliteration
D. Paradox

Question 15:

• JAMB 2023

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

A. A symbol
B. An irony
C. A subject
D. An epigram