Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 476:

• JAMB 1981

'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to

A. A ployman and the herd
B. The rich people of the village
C. The congregation of the church
D. The politicians
E. All those buried in the graveyard

Question 477:

• JAMB 1981

As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was

A. Worthwhile
B. Uncertain
C. Foolish
D. Wise
E. Commendable.

Question 478:

• JAMB 1981

The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves...'
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

A. Oxymoron
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
E. Synecocdoche.

Question 479:

• JAMB 1981

In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet

A. Warns about the danger of elephants
B. Tells the story of Elephants
C. Describes the attributes of the elephants
D. Shows where to find elephants
E. Wants the destructions of elephants

Question 480:

• JAMB 1981

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses

A. Alternative rhymes
B. Heroic couplet
C. Bank verse
D. Octosyllabic metre
E. Terza rima.