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2012 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5

41
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. "What eyes will watch our large mouths Shaped by the laughter of big children What eyes will watch our large mouths?" Birage Diop:Vanity The tone of the lines above is one of
A
sarcasm
B
sacrilege
C
chiasmus
D
eulogy
42
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. The old man slept in his favourite chair The wind ran its fingers through his hair He looked like a tree gone dry of sap And his hands were dry upon his lap The rhyme a scheme of the poem above is
A
bbaa
B
aabb
C
abab
D
baba
43
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. Unequal laws unto a savage race, That board, and sleep, and feed.... The lines above show that the speaker
A
detects discrimination
B
is desirous of adventure
C
hates his old wife
D
knows much of his city men
44
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. ....How can i look at Oyo and say i hate long shiny cars? How can i come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him.... The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of
A
anger
B
alienation
C
hope
D
despair
45
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. "Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka:Night Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of
A
birds
B
armed robbers
C
animals
D
spirit beings
46
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. "Serrated shadows, through dark leaves Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells Sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves." Wole Soyinka: Night The dominant mood in the lines above is one of
A
apprehension
B
defiance
C
joy
D
indifference
47
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. "The drums overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: Casualties The poet in the excerpt above uses
A
litotes
B
symbolism
C
onomatopoeia
D
alliteration
48
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. ....They do not see the funeral piles At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:Casualties The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through
A
metaphor
B
personification
C
synedoche
D
metonym
49
This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. "I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly" A.L. Tennyson:Ulysses The lines above inform the reader that the poet
A
is determined to suffer
B
has his poetic imagination kindled
C
will cure his sour mood
D
will not drink much