GENERAL LITERARY PRINCIPLES - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 136:

• JAMB 1982

As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of

A. Autobiography
B. Sermon
C. Travelogue
D. Epistle
E. Biography.

Question 137:

• JAMB 1982

When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means

A. Eliza faces the threat of premature death
B. Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
C. Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
D. Eliza will not survive her illness
E. Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.

Question 138:

• JAMB 1983

We sang that song before
In the thousand seasons of good harvest
And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints
On the long shores.
A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is

A. Apostrophe
B. Alliteration
C. Simile
D. Onomotopoeia
E. Personification.

Question 139:

• JAMB 1983

A Sonnet is a poem of

A. Seven lines
B. Three lines
C. Four lines
D. Fourteen lines
E. Twelve lines.

Question 140:

• JAMB 1983

Point out the odd term

A. Enjambment
B. Rhyme
C. Alliteration
D. Assonance
E. Plot.