Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 436:

• JAMB 1980

In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes

A. Flood
B. Ancestor
C. Modernity
D. Sacrifise
E. Golden girl

Question 437:

• JAMB 1980

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is

A. Suffering and oppression
B. Laughter and happiness
C. Singing and merry making
D. Love for a woman
E. Long journey

Question 438:

• JAMB 1980

Poetry deals with one of the following

A. Emotion only
B. Death only
C. Ideas only
D. Emotion and ideas
E. Beauty only

Question 439:

• 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 440:

• JAMB 1980

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's

A. Cleverness
B. Versatility
C. Moral weakness
D. Romatic disposition
E. Evil nature