Unseen passages/extracts from Drama, Prose, and Poetry - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 16:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes

A. An object of religious worship
B. The poet's mother
C. The poet's cultural traditions
D. A river in the poet's village

Question 17:

• JAMB 1988

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

A. Has wasted all his mother's money
B. Is money
C. Has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
D. Has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess

Question 18:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

A. In most kinds of poems
B. Only in free verse
C. Uniquely in blank verse
D. Peculiarly in rhyming couplets

Question 19:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'I find no peace, and all my war is done;Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;And nought I have and all the world in season'. The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

A. Oxymoron
B. Alliteration
C. Euphemism
D. Hyperbole

Question 20:

• JAMB 1989

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries
If we weep gently....'
What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

A. Regret and disappointment
B. Disillusion and despair
C. Disdain and disgust
D. Satisfaction and pleasure