JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2013

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST AFRICAN vERSE.

The language OF cOPE'S sONNET vii past event in a literary work is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far off things

And battles long ago.

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of today?The lines above end in a literary device known as

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Listen...they will tell you...

To beat drums is mere children's play,

The adult's is to start echoes...The lines above from Launkos' End of the War, enhance the

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

Lawrence's Bat opens with the description of the

These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool

Unruly sun

Why dost thou thus

Through windows

And through curtains

Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe excerpts above suggests

"....Put up thy sword

Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool

Unruly sun

Why dost thou thus

Through windows

And through curtains

Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe figure of speech involved in the lines above is

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

Women refuse to marry?

Woman cannot exist except by man,

What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

The dominant poetic technique employed in Adeoti's Naked Soles is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far off things

And battles long ago.

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of today?The lines above shows that the persona

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.

The platter wears away with serving food.

No log retains its bark when old,

No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.The theme of the poem above is

"O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

And turned that black word "death" to banishment."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

"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?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.

The platter wears away with serving food.

No log retains its bark when old,

No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.From the poem above, "No lover peaceful while the rival weeps" means that

These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent

I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's

Fluorescence, dance on the pulse

Incessant. Wole Soyinka:Night

The lines above suggests that women are

These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool, unruly sun,

Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun RisingFrom the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

The question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate

The word As I hate hell, all Montagues,

And thee Have at thee,coward!"Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above reveal the speaker as a

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

Shall my pilot be

My inborn stars to that

Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

These question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; A villain that is hither come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night.'

The villain in the excerpt above is