Literary principles - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 86:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
Which of the following is central to narrative fiction?

A. Sequence of events
B. Dialogue
C. Objectivity
D. Subjectivity

Question 87:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A paradox is

A. Applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
B. A statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
C. An episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
D. An elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country

Question 88:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A necessary quality of every work of literature is that it

A. Shows a creative use of language
B. Has to be publishable in order to gain wide acceptance
C. Teaches a moral lesson
D. Characters or actors

Question 89:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,' Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
The dominant device in this extract is

A. Progressive repetition
B. Progressive amplification
C. Bold contrast
D. Rhyetorical emphasis

Question 90:

• JAMB 1991

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
Blank verse

A. Is nonsensical verse
B. Consists of unhymed five stress lines
C. Is verse used by the nobility
D. Consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line