Jamb 1990 Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation. The basic idea of any given work of art is its
- A. imagery
- B. style
- C. theme
- D. tone
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'. Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of
- A. simile
- B. metaphor
- C. metonymy
- D. synecdoche
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
The epilogue in a literary composition is
- A. at the beginning
- B. in the middle
- C. at the end
- D. just before the end
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A paradox is
- A. applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
- B. a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
- C. an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
- D. an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country
This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man . Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.
About his being hid by two women' Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of
- A. sarcasm
- B. ridicule
- C. irony
- D. suspense
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
When a character in a literary work exists primarily to enhance, through contrast, the portrayal of the personal traits of another character is a
- A. protagonist
- B. antagonist
- C. mirror character
- D. foil
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
...I am the twinkle of a Jewel
But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!...'
These lines suggest that
- A. Sidi is superior to the Bale
- B. Sidi is weaker than the Bale
- C. Sidi is clever than the Bale
- D. the Bale is violent
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
Which of the following is central to narrative fiction?
- A. Sequence of events
- B. Dialogue
- C. Objectivity
- D. Subjectivity
This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
What is the source of Aissatou's success in life?
- A. Vengeance
- B. Feminine courage
- C. Social connections
- D. Luck
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation
'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore; But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore; And, having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more.'
These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of
- A. pun
- B. personification
- C. hyperbole
- D. quibble