Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 721:

• JAMB 1986

'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons
The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'
The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with

A. Redemption from ignorance
B. Violence and oppression
C. Conversion from paganism
D. The building of beautiful edifices.

Question 722:

• JAMB 1986

Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of

A. Repetition of symbolic references
B. Rhetorical questions
C. Exaggeration
D. Flowering language.

Question 723:

• JAMB 1986

The gurgling drums
Echo the stars
The forest howls
And between the tress
The dark sun appears.
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is

A. Synecdoche
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Personification.

Question 724:

• JAMB 1986

The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase

A. Clash of cultures
B. Primal youth of the African
C. Beauty of the Concerto
D. The decay of African Civilization.

Question 725:

• JAMB 1986

Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.
The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called

A. Oxymoron
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Hyperbole.