Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1936:

• JAMB 2011

These question are based on literary Appreciation.
''Do not thank me,instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling,vomitting,rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you. But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace?
Are not people ailing and dying
Ola Rotimi: The God''s Are Not
To Blame

A. Chieftancy tussel
B. Political unrest
C. Sickness and death
D. Famine and war

Question 1937:

• JAMB 2011

These question are based on literary Appreciation.
I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most them.I have been in prison more hours than i have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life,the speaker's tone is

A. Regretful
B. Subdued
C. Repentant
D. Boastful

Question 1938:

• JAMB 2011

These question are based on literary Appreciation.
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.'
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

A. Metonymy
B. Assonance
C. Metaphor
D. Litotes

Question 1939:

• JAMB 2011

These question are based on literary Appreciation.
'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.
The excerpt above is an example of

A. Invocation
B. Ode
C. Elegy
D. Limerick

Question 1940:

• JAMB 2011

These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,
alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'
Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.
The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

A. Envy
B. Suspicion
C. Contempt
D. Sympathy