Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 146:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

Who impregnated Aloho?

A. The Commissioner
B. Chief Haladu
C. Justice Odili
D. Inspector Inaku

Question 147:

• JAMB 2017

_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work

A. Cast
B. Summary
C. Flaw
D. Plot

Question 148:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Faceless by Amma Darko

What is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home?

A. She chose to go to the street
B. Her mother remarried
C. She steals her mother things
D. She wants to poison her boyfriend

Question 149:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.


Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is ________?

A. A celebration of life
B. An appreciation of nature
C. A demystication of death
D. A celebration of the final passage

Question 150:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________?

A. Allusion
B. Juxtaposition
C. Symbolism
D. Memoir