2015 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 3

This question is based on General literacy principles

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbol is known as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

And laid my honour too unchary on it',

There's something in me that

reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

Paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan is

Plays are basically meant to be

Travelogue is a work of art written

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

'As if men hung here unbloom,

Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

Sweet smile in time of snarl

gives pride in spite of sneer

sing, rid this world of despair

and save, a snared heart from

cascading stream of strife

The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is