Appreciation - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 71:

• JAMB 1979

In a 'Portrait', a poet writes:
At mankind's feast,i take my place
In solemn,sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While i defile the dinner plate.
The tone of this passage may be described as

A. Solemn
B. Self-mocking
C. Dead earnest
D. Serious
E. Angry

Question 72:

• JAMB 1979

The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,
The vapors weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The theme of these lines is

A. The falling of leaves
B. The ground on which the leaves fall
C. Man as a farmer
D. The power of death over every life
E. The flight of birds in certain reasons

Question 73:

• JAMB 1980

In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

A. A particular immortal Bird
B. All nightingales
C. Artistic expression
D. Philosophical statement
E. The nightingale Ruth heard

Question 74:

• JAMB 1980

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

A. What he actually witnessed
B. An imaginary event
C. What he read about in the pspers
D. What the prison wader told him
E. What everyone knows.

Question 75:

• JAMB 1980

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

A. His bed has always uncomfortable
B. He has sleepless nights
C. He has no literary pretensions
D. He is well-versed in rhetorics
E. He is a poor sleeper.