Literary terms - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 226:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adoration
The figure of speech in the lines above is

A. Antithesis
B. Invocation
C. Personification
D. Apostrophe

Question 227:

• JAMB 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
"What eyes will watch our large mouths
Shaped by the laughter of big children
What eyes will watch our large mouths?"
Birage Diop:Vanity
The tone of the lines above is one of

A. Sarcasm
B. Sacrilege
C. Chiasmus
D. Eulogy

Question 228:

• 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 229:

• 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

Question 230:

• JAMB 2013

These question is based on General Literary Principles.
A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

A. Flashback
B. Foreshadowing
C. Interlude
D. Anti-climax