Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1631:

• JAMB 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?
Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's
The literary device used in the excerpt above is

A. Apostrophe
B. Rhetorical question
C. Pun
D. Run-on-line

Question 1632:

• JAMB 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles
''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.
W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

A. Cbba cdda
B. Bbac ddac
C. Ddca bbca
D. Abbc addc

Question 1633:

• JAMB 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles
'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses
The tone of the poem above is

A. Optimistic
B. Interrogative
C. Persuasive
D. Pessimistic

Question 1634:

• JAMB 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles
The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of

A. Euphemism
B. Paradox
C. Hyperbole
D. Metaphor

Question 1635:

• JAMB 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.
Cynthia James: Drumology
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

A. Olfactory and visual
B. Olfactory and tactile
C. Auditory and visual
D. Tactile and auditory