Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 836:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?'' Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti The mood of the quotation in this passage is

A. Tragically comic
B. Deadly serious
C. Playfully serious
D. Humorously comic

Question 837:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are

A. Understatement and hyperbole
B. Irony and metaphor
C. Simile and personification
D. Irony and understatement

Question 838:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'Created half to rise, and half to fal;Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of

A. Zeugma
B. Oxymoron
C. Antithesis
D. Conceit

Question 839:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!And I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety'. My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.The above poem essentially deals with the theme of

A. Old age
B. Childhood innocence
C. Beauty of the rainbow
D. Fatherhood

Question 840:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life beganSo be it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!And I could wish my day to be Bound each to each by natural piety'. My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

A. Personification
B. Oxymoron
C. Metonymy
D. Paradox