Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 611:

• JAMB 1984

'We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers' footprints on the long shores.'
The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor's 'More messenger' is

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

Question 612:

• JAMB 1984

In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

A. Welcome and totally pleasant
B. Unwelcome and unpleasant
C. Dangerous and uninviting
D. Seductive and threatening
E. Beautiful and wholesome.

Question 613:

• JAMB 1984

In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

A. Welcome and totally pleasant
B. Unwelcome and unpleasant
C. Dangerous and uninviting
D. Seductive and threatening
E. Beautiful and wholesome.

Question 614:

• JAMB 1984

'Clothes were like tattered flags
Flying off
To expose dangling breasts
As jaggered blinding flashes
Rumble, tremble, and crack
Amidst the smell of fired smoke
And the pelting march of the storm'
The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of

A. Peace and quiet
B. Contentment and calm
C. Anger and anxiety
D. Commotion and confusion
E. Poverty and want

Question 615:

• JAMB 1984

In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare

A. The supremacy of animal over man
B. That animal shall in no way imitate human activities
C. That man is infinitely superior
D. That animal and men are equal
E. That animal are inferior to humans.