GENERAL LITERARY PRINCIPLES - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 251:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as an

A. Alliteration
B. Allegory
C. Allusion
D. Ambiguity

Question 252:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A necessary quality of every work of literature is that it

A. Shows a creative use of language
B. Has to be publishable in order to gain wide acceptance
C. Teaches a moral lesson
D. Characters or actors

Question 253:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'. Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Metonymy
D. Synecdoche

Question 254:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,' Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
The dominant device in this extract is

A. Progressive repetition
B. Progressive amplification
C. Bold contrast
D. Rhyetorical emphasis

Question 255:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'I die, yet depart not,
I am bound, yet soar free;
Thou art and thou art not,
And ever shall be!'
'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

A. Metaphysical conceit
B. Paradox
C. Oxymoron
D. Meiosis