Figures of speech - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 16:

• JAMB 1980

'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Polysyndeton
D. Monosyndeton
E. Alliteration

Question 17:

• JAMB 1982

'He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.
He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside'.
What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer's use of

A. Imagery
B. Simile
C. Details
D. Uncommon words
E. Metaphor

Question 18:

• JAMB 1982

So fair fancy few would weave
In these years!
The poetic device consciously used here is

A. Personification
B. Apostrophe
C. Alliteration
D. Oxymoron
E. Simile.

Question 19:

• JAMB 1983

We sang that song before
In the thousand seasons of good harvest
And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints
On the long shores.
A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is

A. Apostrophe
B. Alliteration
C. Simile
D. Onomotopoeia
E. Personification.

Question 20:

• JAMB 1983

In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'
'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of

A. Oxymoron
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Personification
E. Apostophe.