JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A dirge is a

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

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This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

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This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
The choice of imagery in J.P Clark's 'Olukun' suggests that the poem intended to arouse

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THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

'See what a scourage is laid upon your hate

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen...'

The speaker of these lines is

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil

From lamps'.

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This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

The real victims are

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THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

Either withdraw unto some private place,

Or reason coldly of your grievances,

Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

This appeal is made by

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have and all the world in season'.
The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A play is called a comedy when

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
The watch dogs bark!
Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
The strain of the struting chanticleer
Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

'But what wakeful of man,

Made of the mud of this earth,

Can stare at the touch of sleep

The stable vehicle of dream

Which indeed is the look of your eyes?'

These lines from J.P. Clark's 'Olokun' suggests that Olokun eyes

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This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

The story in the book is told from the point of view of

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the

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THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

'Wisely and slow. The stumble that run fast'.

This note of caution comes from

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.

Odewale says this because

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
The persons who take part in a play are sometimes referred to as

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THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.

In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

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THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to

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THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.The following epithets:

'The courageous captain of compliments...

The very butcher of a silk button...

A gentleman of the very first house...'

Refer to

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home', the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because

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This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.

The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside....

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An autobiography becomes a literary work when

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Genres of literature aptly describes

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In David Diop''s ''The Vultures'', the colonialist are portrayed as

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THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME Well it wasn't there anymore with him?

Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?

The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
The mood of the quotation in this passage is

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is

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'I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here?

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THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

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THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes

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This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there

He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.

This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
The above poem essentially deals with the theme of

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; - such is Life!
Joe summarized his wife's behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery's quarrel with

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This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes

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