Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 421:

• JAMB 1980

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses

A. Hyperbole
B. Metonymy
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Simile
E. Apostophe

Question 422:

• JAMB 1980

'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as

A. Complaining continually about life
B. Unwillingness to agree and work with others.
C. Ceaseless labour and search for challenges
D. Dislike of one's country or home
E. Roaming and idling.

Question 423:

• JAMB 1980

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

A. Smile
B. Onomatopeia
C. Metaphor
D. Archaism
E. Metonymy

Question 424:

• JAMB 1980

In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

A. A particular immortal Bird
B. All nightingales
C. Artistic expression
D. Philosophical statement
E. The nightingale Ruth heard

Question 425:

• JAMB 1980

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

A. What he actually witnessed
B. An imaginary event
C. What he read about in the pspers
D. What the prison wader told him
E. What everyone knows.