Structure - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

• JAMB 2019

"A time to sow,
A time to reap,
A time to born,
A time to die"
This exemplies the use of ...

A. Anadiplosis
B. Chiasmus
C. Anaphora
D. Hendiadys

Question 2:

• JAMB 2019

Use the extract below to answer questions
Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
Line 3: so was it when my life began
Line 4: so is it now
Line 5: so is it when I have grown
Line 6: the child is the father of the man.


The rhyme scheme of the poem is_________

A. Acbcca
B. Abccdc
C. Abcacc
D. Abacbc

Question 3:

• JAMB 2016

'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'


The rhyme scheme from Tennyson's cross the Bar is

A. Abac
B. Abba
C. Abab
D. Abcb

Question 4:

• JAMB 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.


That age is best which the first is.
When youth and blood are Warner;
But being spent, the worse ,
and worst Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is

A. Abba
B. Abab
C. Aabb
D. Bbaa

Question 5:

• JAMB 1980

'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

A. Alternative rhymes
B. Triplets
C. Couplets
D. Free verse
E. Blank verse