POETRY - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 21:

• JAMB 2018

"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka: "Night".

Night children in the stanza above reacts the consciousness of__________

A. Birds
B. Armed robbers
C. Animals
D. Spirit beings

Question 22:

• JAMB 2018

Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, 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 at ____________

A. Apprehension
B. Defiance
C. Joy
D. Indifference

Question 23:

• JAMB 2018

"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Stark: "Casualties"

The poet in the excerpt above uses

A. Litotes
B. Symbolism
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Aliteration

Question 24:

• JAMB 2018

"... They do not see the funeral plies, 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. Synecdoche
D. Metonymy

Question 25:

• JAMB 2018

“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”
The lines above inform the reader that the poet

A. Is determined to suffer
B. Has his poetic imagination kindled
C. Will cure his sour mood
D. Will not drink much