LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 56:

• JAMB 1981

'The celebration is now ended
but the echoes are all around
whirling like a harmattan
whirl-wind throwing dust around
and hands cover faces and feet grope'
There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

A. Brought peace to the land
B. Did not kead to joyful times
C. Did not recieve general approval
D. Produced more merriment
E. Affected climate conditions.

Question 57:

• JAMB 1981

'Now the bells are tolling
A year is dead.
And my heart is slowly beating
the Nunc Dimittis
to all my hopes and mute
yearnings of a year
and ghost hover round
dream beyond dream'.
For this poet, the passing year has

A. Been one of satisfaction and fulfilment
B. Has nothing to do with his personal life
C. Brought death to his relatives
D. Meant unrealized hopes
E. Brought changes

Question 58:

• JAMB 1981

'Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.
In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Alliteration
D. Cadence
E. Inversions.

Question 59:

• JAMB 1981

As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was

A. Worthwhile
B. Uncertain
C. Foolish
D. Wise
E. Commendable.

Question 60:

• JAMB 1981

The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves...'
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

A. Oxymoron
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
E. Synecocdoche.