LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 141:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

A. Want to marry the photographer
B. Feel more important than Baroka
C. Want to go to the city
D. Appreciate Lakunle's learning

Question 142:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea...'
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T.
Coleridge
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

A. Paradox
B. Repetition
C. Alliteration
D. Antithesis

Question 143:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as

A. Diction
B. Figures of speech
C. Characterization
D. Rhythms

Question 144:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'Hall to then, blithe spirit!
Bird thou wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!
'To A Shylark' by P.B. Shelley
The main figure of speech in the above passage is

A. Apostrophe
B. Hyperbole
C. Euphemism
D. Metonymy

Question 145:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation
'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt' Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)
The literary term used for this kind of writing is

A. Biography
B. Autograph
C. Orthography
D. Autobiography