Literature in English 2017 Past Questions | JAMB
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41. This question is based on General Literacy Principles
A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________?
- A. allusion
- B. juxtaposition
- C. symbolism
- D. memoir
Correct Option: Answer is B
42. “I can stand well enough and I speak well enough”. The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ?
- A. synedole
- B. euphemism
- C. repetition
- D. irony
Correct Option: Answer is C
43. Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______
- A. Climax
- B. Concrete
- C. Conflict
- D. Confident
Correct Option: Answer is A
44. This question is based on Amma Darko’s Facesless.
The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because
- A. It only occurs in Ghana
- B. It could be found only in Africa
- C. It is common to almost all nations of the world
- D. the novel is read in all parts of the world
Correct Option: Answer is C
45. This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Othello.
According to the highest estimate, how many ships in the Turkish fleet were said to head for the Island of Cyprus?
- A. 107
- B. 230
- C. 200
- D. 140
Correct Option: Answer is B
46. This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):
A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.
Tennyon’s Crossing the Bar is ________?
- A. a celebration of life
- B. an appreciation of nature
- C. a demystication of death
- D. a celebration of the final passage
Correct Option: Answer is C
47. This question is based on Faceless by Amma Darko
What is the reason that caused Odarley’s mother to send him away from home?
- A. she chose to go to the street
- B. her mother remarried
- C. she steals her mother things
- D. she wants to poison her boyfriend
Correct Option: Answer is B
48. _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work
- A. Cast
- B. Summary
- C. Flaw
- D. Plot
Correct Option: Answer is D
Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. The structure of a novel depends on the organization of events in the plot of the story
49. This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche’s Harvest of Corruption
Who impregnated Aloho?
- A. The Commissioner
- B. Chief Haladu
- C. Justice Odili
- D. Inspector Inaku
Correct Option: Answer is B
50. This question is based on Bayo Adebowale’s Lonely Days
Yaremi’s main job is
- A. selling cassava
- B. harvesting cassava
- C. dyeing taffeta cloths
- D. sewing taffeta cloths