Literature in English 2016 JAMB Past Questions
Literature in English 2016 JAMB Past Questions
1.Chief, the buys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increases in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.
The scene of the conversation in the excerpt above is
The scene of the conversation in the excerpt above is
- A. a street
- B. Chief's office
- C. a hotel
- D. the Police Station
Explanation
The novelist makes use of the omniscient or third person narrative technique.2.'Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.
The setting of the play is
The setting of the play is
- A. Gbossa
- B. Benue
- C. Nassarawa
- D. Jabu
Explanation
Peter was so sober as depicted in the poem, being that we step into a sober life of domesticity, followed by a period of self-evaluation of the years spent well or not.3.This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being
- A. obscene
- B. farcical
- C. comic
- D. didactic
Explanation
The statement was made by Ochuole in Page 13, as she tried to inform Madam Hoha in Page 13 on how she would "convince her (Aloho) to pay the ball with him (Chief) and then the usual commission keeps rolling in"(Pg.13)4.This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
Aloho is employed as Chief's
- A. Personal Assistant
- B. Protocol Officer
- C. Legal Adviser
- D. Secretary
Explanation
It is the deployment of words in a way that such words suggest or echo their meaning or sense of use.5.This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.
'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\
The speaker of the excerpt above is
- A. Ogeyi
- B. Alice
- C. Ayo
- D. Mrs Obi
Explanation
The main idea in the poem is to develop two contrasting musical instruments. These are the jungle drums, associated with Africa, and the piano, which is identified with Europe. They are used symbolically to represent the different cultures of people from these geographical entities.6. This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by
- A. a famale prophet
- B. Desdemona's maid
- C. Othello's mother
- D. Othello's lover.
Correct Answer: Option C
7. This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The first character in the play to refers to Othello by name is
- A. Brabantio
- B. Desdemona
- C. the Duke
- D. lago
Correct Answer: Option C
8. This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
The hypocritical character in the play is
- A. Montano
- B. lago
- C. Cassio
- D. Roderigo
Correct Answer: Option B
9. This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
Othello kills himself with a
- A. bottle
- B. sword
- C. gun
- D. knife
Correct Answer: Option B
10. This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.
'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.'
This speaker of the lines above is
- A. lago
- B. Cassio
- C. Desdemona
- D. Emilia
Correct Answer: Option B
11. This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'
The image depicted in the lines above is
The image depicted in the lines above is
- A. ironic
- B. personification
- C. hyperbolic
- D. metaphori
Correct Answer: Option A
12. This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a
- A. renegade
- B. leper
- C. foreigner
- D. desperado
Correct Answer: Option C
13. This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a
- A. renegade
- B. leper
- C. foreigner
- D. desperado
Correct Answer: Option C
14. This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
Kabria's second child is
- A. Ottu
- B. Adade
- C. Essie
- D. Obea
Correct Answer: Option C
15. This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.
Kabria's second child is
- A. Ottu
- B. Adade
- C. Essie
- D. Obea
Correct Answer: Option C
16. This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
Yaremi's main job is taffeta
- A. mending
- B. making
- C. weavibg
- D. dyeing
Correct Answer: Option B
17. This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with
- A. indifference
- B. suspicion
- C. elation
- D. anger
Correct Answer: Option B
18. This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.
Kufi is a
- A. Christian community
- B. pagan society
- C. Muslim community
- D. traditional society
Correct Answer: Option D
19. This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a
- A. knife and a sword
- B. knife and gun
- C. hammer and a sickle
- D. matchet and a hammer
Correct Answer: Option B
20. This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
The family that donates to charity is
- A. the Thomas
- B. Buckleys
- C. the Daltons
- D. the Earlones
Correct Answer: Option C
21. This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
You want to known something then you run like a rabbit'
The device used in the line above is
- A. pun
- B. personification
- C. metaphor
- D. simile
Correct Answer: Option D
22. This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.
According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of
- A. being more educated
- B. accommodation
- C. good job
- D. the rights to vote
Correct Answer: Option C
23. This
question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New
Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and
Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles;
Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed):
West African Verse.
The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of
- A. fable
- B. euphemism
- C. allegory
- D. symbolism
Correct Answer: Option D
24. This
question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New
Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and
Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles;
Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed):
West African Verse.
The tone of the persona in Blake's The School Boy is that of
- A. fear
- B. fulfillment
- C. contempt
- D. neutrality
Correct Answer: Option A
25.This
question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New
Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and
Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles;
Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed):
West African Verse.
'awaiting in ambush'
ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises
- A. exploit
- B. frustration
- C. danger
- D. pain
Correct Answer: Option C
26. This
question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New
Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and
Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles;
Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed):
West African Verse.
'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'
The image in the lines above in Morris'
The Proud King is
- A. auditory
- B. gustatory
- C. tactile
- D. visual
Correct Answer: Option D
27. 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'
The rhyme scheme from Tennyson's cross the Bar is
- A. abac
- B. abba
- C. abab
- D. abcb
Correct Answer: Option C
28. 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.
When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'
One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is
- A. education
- B. slavery
- C. colonisation
- D. corruption
Correct Answer: Option C
29. 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.
When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'
'And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'
The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as
- A. smart
- B. sick
- C. weak
- D. strong
Correct Answer: Option C
30. According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is
- A. poor
- B. religious
- C. hopeful
- D. frustrated
Correct Answer: Option C
31. The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is
- A. rhetorical question
- B. allusion
- C. hyperbole
- D. dramatic irony
Correct Answer: Option A
32. Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
- A. traditional poem
- B. a lyric
- C. dramatic monologue
- D. ballad
Correct Answer: Option C
33. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as
- A. comic relief
- B. rhetoric
- C. anti-climax
- D. climax
Correct Answer: Option A
34. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An art that is both literary and theatrical is
- A. a prose
- B. a poem
- C. drama
- D. prosody
Correct Answer: Option C
35. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
- A. pathos
- B. parody
- C. pyrrhic
- D. props
Correct Answer: Option A
36. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A literary work that teaches moral is said to be
- A. didactic
- B. instructive
- C. corrective
- D. impressive
Correct Answer: Option A
37. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The opposite of the part that introduces the main work in literature is known as
- A. prologue
- B. epitome
- C. epilogue
- D. epitaph
Correct Answer: Option C
38. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is
- A. synecdoche
- B. melodrama
- C. enjambment
- D. alliteration
Correct Answer: Option C
39. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a
- A. verse in poetry
- B. stanza in poetry
- C. metre in poetry
- D. trope in poetry
Correct Answer: Option B
40. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is
- A. ambiguity
- B. characterization
- C. suspense
- D. plot
Correct Answer: Option C
41. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Satire employs the use of
- A. onomatopeia
- B. irony
- C. synecdoche
- D. melancholy
Correct Answer: Option B
42. This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The speech made by a character to himself on stage is
- A. epilogue
- B. aside
- C. soliloquy
- D. monologue
Correct Answer: Option C
43. This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
'Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's Fluorescence, dance on the pulse incessant.'
Wole Soyinka: Night.
The line above suggest that women are
- A. covetous
- B. dogmatic
- C. seers
- D. magicians
Correct Answer: Option A
44. This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Fights by the book of arithmetic
The figure of speech in the line above is
- A. hyperbole
- B. euphemism
- C. litotes
- D. innuendo
Correct Answer: Option A
45. This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Weep not child, weep not my darling
With these kisses let me remove your tears
The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious
They shall no longer possess the sky....
The speaker of the lines is
- A. optimistic
- B. carefree
- C. helpless
- D. pessimistic
Correct Answer: Option A
46. This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
'This thing you are doing is too heavy for you, he said.' I went to school only a little, but I have killed many more years in this world than you have.'
G.Okara: The Voice.
It can be inferred from the passage above that the
- A. listener is wise
- B. speaker is a porter
- C. listener is more experienced
- D. speaker is more experienced
Correct Answer: Option D
47. This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
My inborn stars to that
Final call to thee...
The literary device used in the first line is
- A. apostrophe
- B. burleques
- C. rehetoric question
- D. passion
Correct Answer: Option A
48. This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
'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.'.
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of
- A. litotes
- B. metonymy
- C. assonance
- D. metaphor
Correct Answer: Option D
49. No. no1 Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.
The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my
weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe
against others.'
O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.
The speaker in the passage is
O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.
The speaker in the passage is
- A. reckless
- B. insane
- C. a coward
- D. a hero
Correct Answer: Option D
50.
'He says
The medicine gourds are filthy,
And the herb
Are drunk from unhygienic cups'
Okot p Bitek: Song of Lawino
The poet in the lines is saying that
And the herb
Are drunk from unhygienic cups'
Okot p Bitek: Song of Lawino
The poet in the lines is saying that
- A. the speaker is very hygienic
- B. the person referred to takes Western medicine
- C. herbal medicine is dangerous
- D. the speaker prefers Western medicine
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