JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2000

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

This question is based on Literary Principles.

LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

WILLY: No, nothing happened.

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Willy's first words show that his coming back is

This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

The novel is set in the

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

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Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The pervasive mood of the speaker in Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto' is that of

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

Adah's sojourn in London reveals that

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

David Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' symbolically describes the meeting between

This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

'Th old man was dreaming about the lions suggests that he is

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'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace'' Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.

The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A panegyric poem is composed to

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

The images depicted are those of

This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

And water once a day her chamber round

With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

The imagery above describes

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'... It is not yet dawn

And we wake from one nightmara

To another.'

In these lines from Ojaide's The Owl Wake Us', the mood is that of a

This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

X: What country, friends, is this?

Y: This is lllyria, lady.

X: And what should I do in lllyria?

My brother he is in Elysium.

Perchance he is not drown' d;....

The dialogue above takes place

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Mock-heroic poetry elevates

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

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In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks.

Ezeulu does not want to refuse the whiteman's call and so he is sending his son!

Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

The lines above illustrate the use of

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The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

The speech is made by

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is that of

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

The friendship between Laye and Marie lasted because

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Lineation refers to

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A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a

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'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...

Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

The author's thematic concern is

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A primary ballad is associated with

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The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

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LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

WILLY: No, nothing happened.

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Linda's words above express a feeling of

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

For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

The most important objects in the hut are the

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing

Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap

The extract above from Wole Soyinka's

Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between

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Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...

I have never know you but your blood flows in my veins

Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....

David Diop, Africa'

In the lines above, Diop uses

This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

The pot of the novel revolves around

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Ode on a Grecian Urn,'John Keats is concerned with

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A trilogy is the

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

The success of the novel lies in the author's

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'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'

The stanza above succinctly presents the

This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

The old man's experience is a lesson in

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

The novel is an expose of the

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A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The language of the play is