Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 2026:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.
"Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescence, dance on the pulse
incessant.
Wole Soyinka:Night
The lines above suggests that women are

A. Dogmatic
B. Seers
C. Magicians
D. Covetous

Question 2027:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.
"Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?"
J. Donne: The Sun Rising
The excerpts above suggests

A. Welcoming the sun
B. Indictment of the sun
C. Praise of nature
D. Invitation to the sun

Question 2028:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.
"Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?"
J. Donne: The Sun Rising
The figure of speech involved in the lines above is

A. Epigram
B. Pun
C. Simile
D. Personification

Question 2029:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?
The lines above shows that the persona

A. So hates the words of the girl
B. Understands the girl's songs
C. Does not understand the girl's language
D. Is so much in love with the girl

Question 2030:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.
Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?
The lines above end in a literary device known as

A. Irony
B. Conceit
C. Transfered epithet
D. Rhetorical question