Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 531:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The above passage derives its theme from

A. The repetition of nature images
B. Contrastive use of images
C. The consistency of its rhyme scheme
D. The use of the same figures of speech
E. The uses of apostrophyes.

Question 532:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The dominant images in the above passage are

A. Cosmic
B. Metallic
C. Harsh
D. Sensuous
E. Domestic.

Question 533:

• JAMB 1982

As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of

A. Autobiography
B. Sermon
C. Travelogue
D. Epistle
E. Biography.

Question 534:

• JAMB 1982

When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means

A. Eliza faces the threat of premature death
B. Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
C. Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
D. Eliza will not survive her illness
E. Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.

Question 535:

• JAMB 1982

The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.
In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

A. Repetitious statements
B. Symbolic reference
C. Biblical allusion
D. Delibrate distortion
E. Hyperbolic comment.