LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 21:

• JAMB 2017

Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption


Two dominat themes of the play are __________?

A. Honesty and decency
B. Immorality and greed
C. Poverty and education
D. Weeding and planting

Question 22:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Literary.


Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in Biafra
The speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of

A. Admiration
B. Condemnation
C. Spite
D. Respect

Question 23:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on General Literacy Principles


At the peak of the trumpeter's performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________?

A. Metaphor and paradox
B. Simile and metaphor
C. Simile and personification
D. Paradox and simile

Question 24:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption


The Two dominant themes of the play are

A. Honesty and decency
B. Immorality and greed
C. Poverty and education
D. Weeding and planting

Question 25:

• JAMB 2017

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.


"Though I do hate him as I do pains, yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign..."


The speaker of the excerpt above can be described as

A. Trusting
B. A concubine
C. A schemer
D. Ambitious