Literary terms - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 151:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a

A. Simile
B. Denotation
C. Connotation
D. Metaphor

Question 152:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'what time night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise'.
J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'
Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?

A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Hyperbole
D. Onomatopoeia

Question 153:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as

A. Assonance
B. Apostrophe
C. Elegy
D. Personification

Question 154:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing

A. Retrospection
B. Flashback
C. Historical drama
D. Dramatic shift

Question 155:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'I love to pass my fingers,
As tide through weeds of the sea
And wind the tall fern-fronds
Through the strands of your hair
Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'
J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'
The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is

A. Metaphor
B. Alliteration
C. Rhythm
D. Simile