Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1556:

• JAMB 2004

This question is based on Literary AppreciationThe guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'
Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

A. Mythical
B. Biblical
C. Historical
D. Classical

Question 1557:

• JAMB 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.
My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.
My poor brother in immaculate evening dress
Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.
Diop: The Renegade
The poet's attitude here is

A. Paradoxical
B. Envious
C. Ironical
D. Sarcastic

Question 1558:

• JAMB 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to
England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.
The subject matter of the passage above is the

A. Uncritical acceptance of European values
B. Woes of English marriage
C. Adventures in England
D. Intransigence of an African wife

Question 1559:

• JAMB 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence
The dominant technique in the lines above is

A. Irony
B. Rhyme
C. Alliteration
D. Metaphor

Question 1560:

• JAMB 2004

This question is based on Literary AppreciationHe was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.
He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.
He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.
Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full
The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

A. Ridicule
B. Praise
C. Hatred
D. Admiration