Jamb 2017 Literature Past Questions And Answers
This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless
The narrative style adopted in the novel is
- A. second persons
- B. third person
- C. interior monologue
- D. first person
_______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work
- A. Cast
- B. Summary
- C. Flaw
- D. Plot
This question is based on Literary Appreciation
“ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world †Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl
The writer of the passage above is ________?
- A. assertive
- B. retrogressive
- C. optimistic
- D. antagonistic
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
This question is based on William Shakespheare's Othello
“ ...Fathers, from hence trust not daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?. â€
In the excerpt it is implied that daughters are
- A. lascivious
- B. petty
- C. pretentious
- D. thieves
This question is based on General Literacy Principles
An example of a narrative poem is ________?
- A. elegy
- B. epic
- C. dirge
- D. sonnet
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.
The mood of Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be described as
- A. sober
- B. boastful
- C. defiant
- D. languid
I can stand well enough and I speak well enough. The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ?
- A. synedole
- B. euphemism
- C. repetition
- D. irony
This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello.
...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?.....
The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______?
- A. Othello
- B. Iago
- C. Brabantio
- D. Roderigo
Who succeeded Othello as Governor of Cyprus?
- A. Cassio
- B. Iago
- C. Montano
- D. Gratiano