LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 91:

• JAMB 1983

'All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant's coming
Then did the branches talk in agony'.
There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of

A. Oxymoron
B. Metonymy
C. Alliteration
D. Simile
E. Personification.

Question 92:

• JAMB 1983

'I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'
For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

A. Pleasant
B. Difficult
C. Rewarding
D. Exicting
E. Bracing.

Question 93:

• JAMB 1983

'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

A. Taste
B. Touch
C. Sight
D. Smell
E. Hearing

Question 94:

• JAMB 1983

'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of

A. Details
B. Simple words
C. Short sentences
D. The past tense
E. Puntuation.

Question 95:

• JAMB 1983

'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of

A. Memorization
B. Personification
C. Simile
D. Apostrophe
E. Allusion