LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 296:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Paradox

Question 297:

• JAMB 2006

This question is on Literary Appreciation '... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is

A. Derisive
B. Ironic
C. Melancholic
D. Harsh

Question 298:

• JAMB 2006

This question is based on Literary Appreciation'You are the cold nests
In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'Kittobbe: To the Childless
The device used in the excerpt above is

A. Synecdoche
B. Imagery
C. Metaphor
D. Irony

Question 299:

• JAMB 2007

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
If I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice... Is meal Heron:Pardon me.
The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of

A. Plagiarism
B. Anaphora
C. Paralipsis
D. Alliteration

Question 300:

• JAMB 2007

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation
'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of

A. Quatrain and imagery
B. Rhyme andsimile
C. Onomatopoeia and alliteration
D. Alliteration and personification