JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2015

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

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

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

Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays 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 mood in the last two lines is one of

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.

Sweet smile in time of snari 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

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'

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

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 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'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

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 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 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 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 ofThe 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'

Read the extract below and 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 a million years was lost.

The subject matter of the above extract is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.The old man slept in his favourite chair

The wind ran its fingers through his hair

He looked like a tree gone dry of sap

And his hands were dry upon his lapThe rhyme a scheme of the poem 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 ofIn Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the persona addresses the dead athlete using

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

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

These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is