Poetic devices - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 26:

• JAMB 1979

One of the following is a mark of good poetry

A. An interesting story
B. Imaginative use of language
C. Realistic Characterisation
D. Flashback
E. Audience participation

Question 27:

• JAMB 1979

In 'The Executioner's Dream',the first line 'I dream I saw an eye,a pretty eye' is

A. Ironical
B. Complimentary
C. Exclamatory
D. Rhetorical
E. Interrogatory

Question 28:

• JAMB 1979

In Birago Diop's 'Vanity',these two lines 'Sad complaining voices of beggars
Who indeed will hear them without laughter?'contain

A. An exaggeration
B. A hyperbole
C. A paradox
D. An understatement
E. An illogicallity

Question 29:

• JAMB 1979

In 'Telephone Conversation', the tone of the question 'You mean-like plain or milk chocolate? is

A. Sarcastic
B. Complimentary
C. Admissive
D. Pleading
E. Commanding

Question 30:

• JAMB 1980

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

A. Smile
B. Onomatopeia
C. Metaphor
D. Archaism
E. Metonymy