2022 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 1
One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist
C. Achebe
C. Ekwensi
W. Soyinka
J.P Clark
The plot of a novel is best described as
the bare outline of the story arranged in logical order
the story in all its details
the story grossly elaborated
a summary of the story
A narrative poem must
preach a sermon
tell a story
describe natural scenery
argue a question
Literature is studied as a subject at school because
it exposes students to the realities of life
it provides entertainment
it merely gives additional work to students
it teaches the use of words
In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as
alliteration
litotes
exaggeration
parody
If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is
a historical novel
a piece of writing telling us about the Life of its author
a short story
a narrative tale
You cannot know
And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother
In this verse the poet uses
alternate rhymes
monomyme
couplets
triplets
The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an "old" family fallen on evil days. The writer's tone is _______
melancholic
matter-of-fact
bitterly humourous
sympathethic
Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cos, he thought.
In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of
birds
ants
fish
lampposts
Pick out the odd item
a Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night
Ozidi
The Concubine