Literary terms - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 76:

• JAMB 1979

A novel can be described as

A. A narration of facts
B. A story
C. A brief description of a concept or point of view
D. An extended prose narrative covering a wide range of characters and experience
E. A narration of an incedent

Question 77:

• JAMB 1979

Pick out the odd one

A. Metaphor
B. Characterization
C. Personification
D. Rythm
E. Simile

Question 78:

• JAMB 1979

In Night of Seine,the word'dark' in 'listen to our dark blood beat' is used

A. Biologically
B. Scientifically
C. Figuratively
D. Literally
E. Sociologically

Question 79:

• JAMB 1980

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses

A. Hyperbole
B. Metonymy
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Simile
E. Apostophe

Question 80:

• JAMB 1980

'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Polysyndeton
D. Monosyndeton
E. Alliteration