LITERARY APPRECIATION - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 31:

• 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 32:

• JAMB 2015

Use the passage below to answer this question.

'But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.
She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains
heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost'.

The subject matter of the passage is

A. Earthquake
B. Demolition
C. Flood
D. Storm

Question 33:

• JAMB 2015

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.


A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crurch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

A. Aabb
B. Abab
C. Bbaa
D. Abba

Question 34:

• JAMB 1978

Dinny,Lippy,Steepy and Fatty are characters in

A. Kossoh Town Boy
B. Kontiki Expedition
C. Tell Freedom
D. The Concubine
E. No Longer at Ease

Question 35:

• JAMB 1978

The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes,the middle-middle class,the landless gentry.In their miserable poverty they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an 'old' family fallen on evil days.....This writer's tone is

A. Melancholic
B. Matter-of-fact
C. Bitterly humorous
D. Sympathetic
E. Sad