Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1986:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
....How can i look at Oyo and say i
hate long shiny cars? How can i
come to the children and despise
international schools?
And Koomson comes, and the
family sees Jesus Christ in him....
The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

A. Anger
B. Alienation
C. Hope
D. Despair

Question 1987:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"
Wole Soyinka:Night
Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

A. Birds
B. Armed robbers
C. Animals
D. Spirit beings

Question 1988:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"Serrated shadows, through dark leaves
Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your
dapped cells
Sensation pained me, faceless, silent
as night thieves."
Wole Soyinka: Night
The dominant mood in the lines above is one of

A. Apprehension
B. Defiance
C. Joy
D. Indifference

Question 1989:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"The drums overwhelmed the guns..."
J.P Clark: Casualties
The poet in the excerpt above uses

A. Litotes
B. Symbolism
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Alliteration

Question 1990:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
....They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests..."
J.P. Clark:Casualties
The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Synedoche
D. Metonym