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

Question 341:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'what time night it is
I do not know
Except that like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise'.
J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'
Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?

A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Hyperbole
D. Onomatopoeia

Question 342:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as

A. Assonance
B. Apostrophe
C. Elegy
D. Personification

Question 343:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing

A. Retrospection
B. Flashback
C. Historical drama
D. Dramatic shift

Question 344:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'I love to pass my fingers,
As tide through weeds of the sea
And wind the tall fern-fronds
Through the strands of your hair
Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'
J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'
The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is

A. Metaphor
B. Alliteration
C. Rhythm
D. Simile

Question 345:

• JAMB 1995

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'You Kiss her on the cheek
As white people do,
You Kiss her open-sore lips
As white people do,
You suck slimy saliva
From each other's mouths,
As white people do.'
Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'
The writer of the lines above uses repetition

A. For emphasis
B. To underscore disapproval
C. To enhance irony
D. For imitation