Figures of speech - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 1987

An allegory is a story

A. In which people or things or events have another meaning
B. Which aims at teaching a moral lesson
C. In which allegations are made about the characters
D. Told in verse

Question 37:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A statement whose meaning is contrary to that openly expressed is an example of

A. Metaphor
B. Oxymoron
C. Irony
D. Personification

Question 38:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as an

A. Alliteration
B. Allegory
C. Allusion
D. Ambiguity

Question 39:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'. Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Metonymy
D. Synecdoche

Question 40:

• JAMB 1990

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'I die, yet depart not,
I am bound, yet soar free;
Thou art and thou art not,
And ever shall be!'
'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

A. Metaphysical conceit
B. Paradox
C. Oxymoron
D. Meiosis