POETRY - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 116:

• JAMB 1980

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's

A. Cleverness
B. Versatility
C. Moral weakness
D. Romatic disposition
E. Evil nature

Question 117:

• JAMB 1980

In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are

A. Abused
B. Accursed
C. Romanticized
D. Praised
E. Admonished

Question 118:

• JAMB 1980

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

A. A great noble man
B. A devout christain
C. An apicurian in taste
D. A jovial character
E. An ambitious man

Question 119:

• JAMB 1980

In As You Like It, the verse which begins
' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about

A. A storm in winter
B. Man's ingratitude
C. Duk Senior cave
D. Le Beau's love for Snowballs
E. Oriando's love for Rosalind

Question 120:

• JAMB 1980

The dominant images in Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth are those of

A. Love and beauty
B. Youth and joy
C. Death and burial
D. The sweetness of wooling
E. The richness of a man's memory