JAMB LITERATURE QUIZ 1

"From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter; its noises are metallic and clicking. it chitters into the end of the line, then there is a clash of the return, and the musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell."

A striking figure of speech used in the above passage is

• onomatopoeia

• zeugma

• assonance

• paradox

"We all make decisions. Sometimes it is wrong. Sometimes it is right."

The speaker in the lines above is

• afraid

• excited

• pessimistic

• reassuring

"Once upon a time son,

They used to laugh with their eyes;

but now they only laugh with their teeth,

While their ice-block-cold eyes

search behind my shadow."

The lines above are expressive of

• friendliness

• insincerity

• jealousy

• sympathy

"Ay, your times were fine times indeed; you have been telling of them for many long years. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks to all the world like an inn but we never see company."

The figure of speech used in the phrase "the world like an inn" is

• irony

• euphemism

• simile

• metaphor

"She gave out Kolanuts. And together they ate

to appease the angry earth

and Amadioha spoke

through lightning and thunder."

The figure of speech in the phrase 'the angry earth' is

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

'Her neck was ropelike. Thin, long and skinny

And her face sickly pale.'

The tone of the poet is that of

• ridicule

• admonition

• anger

• sympathy

'There is no art

To find the mind's construction on the face

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.'

The gentleman in the lines above

• annoys the speaker

• fights the speaker

• detests the speaker

• betrays the speaker

'He is a faithful liar' is an example of

• euphemism

• epigram

• oxymoron

• antithesis

'He fights by the book of arithmetic' is an example of

• litotes

• innuendo

• hyperbole

• euphemism

'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?

will it make you serve our ancestors better?

Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of

Olokun. Did I go to college?'

The literary device used in the above passage is

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• parallelism