Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 831:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

A. Lines
B. Stanzas
C. Refrains
D. Poems

Question 832:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

A. Discover the beauty of a literary work
B. Finds faults in a literary work
C. Analyse and evaluate a literary work
D. Compare literary works

Question 833:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

A. In most kinds of poems
B. Only in free verse
C. Uniquely in blank verse
D. Peculiarly in rhyming couplets

Question 834:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'I find no peace, and all my war is done;Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;And nought I have and all the world in season'. The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

A. Oxymoron
B. Alliteration
C. Euphemism
D. Hyperbole

Question 835:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back' Violence by Festus Lyayi The greater emphasis in this passage is on the

A. Feling of doubt
B. Feeling of despair
C. Feeling of desperation
D. Sence of failure