Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 771:

• JAMB 1987

Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate

A. His longing for death
B. The child's inability to understand
C. His yearning for his parents
D. His fascination for inscriptions on stonework.

Question 772:

• JAMB 1987

Caricature is used to

A. Ridicule a person by distorting his most prominent features
B. Censure an individual by emphasizing his weakness
C. Expose the folly in literature
D. Elicit the artistic potential of dramatists.

Question 773:

• JAMB 1987

The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called

A. Ambiguity
B. Climax
C. Peripety
D. Euphemism.

Question 774:

• JAMB 1987

Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called

A. Dialetic
B. Decadent
C. Definitive
D. Didactic.

Question 775:

• JAMB 1987

The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres

A. Non-fiction
B. Prose fiction
C. Poetry
D. Drama