Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 261:

• JAMB 2015

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.


The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of
The literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

A. Alliteration and assonance
B. Simile and irony
C. Repetition and alliteration
D. Rhyme and rhythm

Question 262:

• JAMB 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.


Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of field unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind of old sun will know
Think how it woke the seeds
Woke, once, the clay of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are
sides full nerved still warm too hard
to stir was it, for this the clay grew
tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams
toil to break earth's sleep at all.
The poem can be described as

A. A lyric
B. An epic
C. A sonnet
D. An elegy

Question 263:

• JAMB 2015

In literary devices, pun deals with

A. Placing words side by side
B. Playing on words
C. Arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
D. Placing two opposite phrases

Question 264:

• JAMB 2015

This question is based on 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. Apostrophe
C. Personification
D. Euphemism

Question 265:

• JAMB 2015

This question is based on William Romeo and Juliet.


In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to

A. Count Paris in Praise of Juliet
B. Annoy Tybalt
C. Take another wife
D. Serve as an assistance to Romeo