LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 61:

• JAMB 1981

In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet

A. Warns about the danger of elephants
B. Tells the story of Elephants
C. Describes the attributes of the elephants
D. Shows where to find elephants
E. Wants the destructions of elephants

Question 62:

• JAMB 1981

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses

A. Alternative rhymes
B. Heroic couplet
C. Bank verse
D. Octosyllabic metre
E. Terza rima.

Question 63:

• JAMB 1981

''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.
The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Traverse'indicate that the poet

A. Is a traveller
B. An explorer who collect things
C. Enjoys amorous adventures
D. Loves a woman
E. Has a deep-rooted love for his country

Question 64:

• JAMB 1982

'Folk all fade. And whither.
As i wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night fog
Whence they entered hither
Soon one more goes thither!
In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

A. A night in the poet's life
B. Unpleasant weather conditions
C. Life's problem and misfortunes
D. The state before birth and after death
E. Darkness after sunset

Question 65:

• JAMB 1982

'Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed'
The mood registered in these lines is

A. Excitement
B. Depression
C. Gaiety
D. Happiness
E. Persimism