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

Question 411:

• JAMB 1999

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In drama, the term climax is used

A. As a figure of speech connoting beauty
B. For the point of highest dramatic tension
C. When the crisis in the play is resolved
D. When the hero's tragic flaw is revealed

Question 412:

• JAMB 2000

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

A. Beware of the animals in the jungle
B. Beware of the effects of thunder
C. Condemn the destructive qualities of elephants
D. Be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power

Question 413:

• JAMB 2000

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap
The extract above from Wole Soyinka's
Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between

A. Madam and receiver
B. Tenant and telephone
C. Landlady and tenant
D. Receiver and thunderclap

Question 414:

• JAMB 2000

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

A. Alliteration
B. Onomatopeia
C. Oxymoron
D. Simile

Question 415:

• JAMB 2000

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
David Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' symbolically describes the meeting between

A. A black king and a white man
B. Stanley and Mutesa
C. The West and Africa
D. Europe and a black king