Jamb Literature in English 2023 Past Questions and Answers

Question 21:

• JAMB 2023

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is a tragicomic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .

The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called

A. Scansion
B. Enjambment
C. Caesura
D. Apostrophe

Question 22:

• JAMB 2023

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

A. Onomatopoeia
B. Consonance
C. Assonance
D. Alliteration

Question 23:

• JAMB 2023

'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names

What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

A. She falls asleep
B. She is dead
C. She is awake
D. She runs away

Question 24:

• JAMB 2023

This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
Use this excerpt to answer question

"If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

A. Olfactory imagery
B. Tactile
C. Auditory imagery
D. Visual imagery

Question 25:

• JAMB 2023

The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as

A. Anamnesis
B. Anagnorisis
C. Hamartia
D. Hubris