Figures of speech - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 81:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"What eyes will watch our large mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?"
Birage Diop:Vanity
The tone of the lines above is one of

A. Sarcasm
B. Sacrilege
C. Chiasmus
D. Eulogy

Question 82:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
....They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests..."
J.P. Clark:Casualties
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Synedoche
D. Metonym

Question 83:

• JAMB 2013

"Will college make you a better Olokun
priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors
better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-
hearted priest
of Olokun. Did I go to college?"
Grace Osifo: Dizzy
The literary device used in the passage above is

A. Onomatopoeia
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Parallelism

Question 84:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.
The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

A. Personification
B. Metaphor
C. Metonymy
D. Synecdoche

Question 85:

• JAMB 2014

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

A. Pyrrhic
B. Props
C. Pathos
D. Parody