JAMB Literature in English 2015 Past Questions

This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.

'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.
The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop owned by

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

Nnaife and Nnu Ego Second Child but the first to live is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

In Romeo and Juliet, use the excerpt below to answer question 14 and 15.
'.... So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an important child that hath them.
new robes and may not wear.
The literary device used in the excerpt is

This question is based on General literacy principles

A literary genre which directly imitates human action is

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

In Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the persona addresses the dead athlete using

The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

This question is based on General literacy principles

In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a

A speech or writing used to praise a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo is evicted to__________because he__________

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

The relationships of Nnaife family are

In drama, the use of gestures to communicate is known as

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

A brother to Aaron and Maanan is

A significant of a whole through its significant part is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crurch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

In Launko's End of the War, the Casualties are

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through
'........They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests.......'
_ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The figure of speech in the line below from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is 'We would be believing we dreamt it'

Use the passage below to answer this question.

'But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.
She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains
heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost'.

The subject matter of the passage is

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The theme of Cope's sonnet V11 is

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

Where does the play take place?

This question is based on General literacy principles

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbol is known as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
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.'
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

Paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan is

Plays are basically meant to be

Travelogue is a work of art written

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

'As if men hung here unbloom,
Their mildewed buds of love like pollen
Late caught, damp in a swollen...'
The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

Sweet smile in time of snarl
gives pride in spite of sneer
sing, rid this world of despair
and save, a snared heart from
cascading stream of strife
The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of field unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind of old sun will know
Think how it woke the seeds
Woke, once, the clay of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are
sides full nerved still warm too hard
to stir was it, for this the clay grew
tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams
toil to break earth's sleep at all.
The poem can be described as

In literary devices, pun deals with

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

O! Ceremony, show me but thy worth what is thy soul of adoration.
The figure of speech in the lines above is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

In the novel, it is necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for

Ballad is meant to be

This question is based on General literacy principles

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is

The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as

Read the extract below and this answer question.

The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of
dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream
as it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.
The underline expression in line 3 is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favorite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hairs
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap
The rhyme scheme of the poet above is

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of

'.... The youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning dew...'

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

This question is based on General literacy principles

A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

That age is best which the first is.
When youth and blood are Warner;
But being spent, the worse ,
and worst Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is

This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________

'Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

What can you infer about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents