Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 2151:

• JAMB 2022

In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

A. Alliteration
B. Litotes
C. Exaggeration
D. Parody

Question 2152:

• JAMB 2022

Based on the novel; Kossoh Town Boy

If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

A. A historical novel
B. A piece of writing telling us about the Life of its author
C. A short story
D. A narrative tale

Question 2153:

• JAMB 2022

You cannot know
And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother

In this verse the poet uses

A. Alternate rhymes
B. Monomyme
C. Couplets
D. Triplets

Question 2154:

• JAMB 2022

Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

A. Birds
B. Ants
C. Fish
D. Lampposts

Question 2155:

• JAMB 2022

Pick out the odd item

A. A Raisin in the Sun
B. Twelfth Night
C. Ozidi
D. The Concubine