Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 156:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl


The writer of the passage above is ________?

A. Assertive
B. Retrogressive
C. Optimistic
D. Antagnistic

Question 157:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on General Literacy Principles


An example of a narrative poem is ________?

A. Elegy
B. Epic
C. Dirge
D. Sonnet

Question 158:

• JAMB 2017

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


Two dominat themes of the play are __________?

A. Honesty and decency
B. Immorality and greed
C. Poverty and education
D. Weeding and planting

Question 159:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Literary.


Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in Biafra
The speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of

A. Admiration
B. Condemnation
C. Spite
D. Respect

Question 160:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on General Literacy Principles


At the peak of the trumpeter's performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________?

A. Metaphor and paradox
B. Simile and metaphor
C. Simile and personification
D. Paradox and simile