Poetic devices - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 31:

• JAMB 1980

'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

A. Alternative rhymes
B. Triplets
C. Couplets
D. Free verse
E. Blank verse

Question 32:

• JAMB 1983

The tone used in the poem Owusu is that of

A. Admiration
B. Fear
C. Cowardice
D. Self-doubt
E. Condemnation

Question 33:

• JAMB 1985

'Serrating down your back and front
Like beak of the sword-fish,
And both your ears, notched
As a bondsman to this house...'
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is

A. Onomatopoeia
B. Synecdoche
C. Simile
D. Metaphor
E. Verismilitude.

Question 34:

• JAMB 1986

The tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Abiku is

A. Arrogant and cynical
B. Mysterious and cunning
C. Understanding but cynical
D. Kind and thoughtful.

Question 35:

• JAMB 2001

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by

A. Repetition
B. Double rhymes
C. Assonance
D. End rhymes