LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 76:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

A. Paradox
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
E. Onomatopoeia.

Question 77:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The above passage derives its theme from

A. The repetition of nature images
B. Contrastive use of images
C. The consistency of its rhyme scheme
D. The use of the same figures of speech
E. The uses of apostrophyes.

Question 78:

• JAMB 1982

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.
The dominant images in the above passage are

A. Cosmic
B. Metallic
C. Harsh
D. Sensuous
E. Domestic.

Question 79:

• JAMB 1982

The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.
In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

A. Repetitious statements
B. Symbolic reference
C. Biblical allusion
D. Delibrate distortion
E. Hyperbolic comment.

Question 80:

• JAMB 1982

Kenneth Kaunda fought a much bigger boy from another school after a football match because he

A. Was quarrelsome
B. Was aggressive and violet by nature
C. Though they lost the match through foul play
D. Had a great sense of honour and fair play
E. Disliked the boys from the other school.