Literary terms - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 11:

• JAMB 2019

In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

A. Personification
B. Metonymy
C. Metaphor
D. Allusion

Question 12:

• JAMB 2019

Read the poem and answer questions
At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.


The mood of the poet is one of________

A. Loneliness
B. Hopelessness
C. Happiness
D. Recklessness

Question 13:

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'They are as fearsome as they are fearless' is an example of______

A. Antithesis
B. Pun
C. Oxymoron
D. Simile

Question 14:

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'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

A. Alliteration
B. Repetition
C. Paradox
D. Rhyme scheme

Question 15:

• JAMB 2019

The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______

A. Metaphor
B. Symbolism
C. Pathetic Fallacy
D. Analogy