Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 426:

• JAMB 1980

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

A. His bed has always uncomfortable
B. He has sleepless nights
C. He has no literary pretensions
D. He is well-versed in rhetorics
E. He is a poor sleeper.

Question 427:

• JAMB 1980

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

A. Analogies
B. Rhetorical questions
C. Apostrophes
D. Exaggerations
E. Similes.

Question 428:

• JAMB 1980

'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....

A. The end
B. A lover's Hope
C. Joy's of being in love
D. The journey of life
E. Glad lover

Question 429:

• JAMB 1980

''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.
The passage achieve realism through the use of

A. Details
B. Simple words
C. The long sentence
D. The past tense
E. Punctuation.

Question 430:

• JAMB 1980

'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

A. Fun
B. Ill heath
C. Carelessness
D. Sacrifice
E. Dicting