JAMB - Literature In English (2024)

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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Football is the only sport on earth that can be considered truly global. Simple and inexpensive. it is equally likely to be found in a tight Marseille banlieue, an obscure corner of a Lagos slum, and the heart of a Buenos barrio. Marley's music is similarly universal...

According to the excerpt above, football is 

Answer
(D)
a universal game
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"The commission has the power to investigate, 

to conciliate to hold hearings, to order

reinstatement of a discharged employee, and

to direct the appointment of a qualified applicant"

 

The rhetorical device used in the excerpt above is

Answer
(D)
Parallelism
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Lonely road,

Not a star

Lonely road

Shadows far

And quiet"

Peter Abraham Lonely Road.

 

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is 

Answer
(B)
ababc
4

This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn.

The setting of the novel is 

Answer
(A)
Nigeria and Ghana
5

This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn.

Wachuk in the novel is

Answer
(C)
Idem's husband
6
In Senghor's Black Woman, the dominant literary device is 
Answer
(D)
metaphor
7
Sesay's "The Song of the Woman of My Land" is a 
Answer
(D)
panegyric poem
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In Eliot's "Journey of the Magi", "six hands at an open door" is an example of 
Answer
(A)
synecdoche
9
Osundare's "The Leader and the Led" is
Answer
(B)
satiric
10
The poet persona in Donne's "The Good Morrow" reflects on 
Answer
(B)
the immortality of love
11
The style of Chibuike's "A Government Driver on His Retirement" is 
Answer
(A)
narrative
12

"But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams"

The excerpt above from Angelou's "Caged Bird" implies that caged bird

Answer
(B)
will be frustrated
13
Lawrence's "Bats" is a 
Answer
(D)
dramatic monolgue
14

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

Lakunle declines to pay bride price on Sidi because he sees tradition as 

Answer
(C)
babaric
15

The question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

The play is a

Answer
(A)
Comedy
16

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger

Alison and Jimmy are accommodated during the first month of their marriage by

Answer
(A)
Hugh Tanner
17

This question is based on John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger

The protagonist in the play is

Answer
(C)
Jimmy Porter
18

This question is based on John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger

The couple's marital crisis is aggravated by

Answer
(C)
Helena
19

This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

The reason why Jimmy easily gets along with Cliff is because

Answer
(A)
they both belong to the working class
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This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Jimmy's harmatia is

Answer
(B)
anger
21

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

Adah is so obsessed with the sleek woman at the hospital because the woman

Answer
(A)
has a doting husband
22

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Adah's disappointment is in the overwhelming 

Answer
(D)
discrimination against the blacks
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This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen

The main challenge Adah encounters in England is

Answer
(D)
being a black person
24

The question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The structure of the novel is based on two major conflicts of 

Answer
(B)
passion
25

This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The setting of the novel is

Answer
(C)
Mid 18th century
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This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

The novel can be described as a 

Answer
(B)
Victorian novel
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This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff considered himself the second half of 

Answer
(D)
Catherine Earnshaw
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This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The collection of images within a literary work is referred to as 

Answer
(A)
imagery
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This question is based on general literary principles

The leading character in a literary work is the  

Answer
(A)
protagonist
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A long narrative poem that relates heroic exploits is 
Answer
(D)
epic