JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2014

Fights by the book of arithmetic

The figure of speech in the line above is

'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-BugThe most dominant figure of speech in the excerpts above is

'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

From the lines above, the poet persona expresses dismay about

'This thing you are doing is too heavy

For you, he said.'I went to school only a little

But i have killed many more years in this

World than you have.' G. Okara: The VoiceIt can be inferred from the the passage above that 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.

The tone of Umeh's Ambassadors of Poverty can be described as

The allusion in Hughe's The Negro Speaks of Rivers is mainly

'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

The lines above are an example of a

He put himself in uniform, made one for

His five-year-old son, and marched with

The infant from dawn till noon every

Market day, on the main road singing

'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

And when you trudge on one horny Pads Gullied

Like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even

Jiggers cannot conquerHorny pads in the lines above is a reference to a

You

Your head is like a drum that is beaten

For spirits

Your ears are like the fans used for

Blowing fire.The lines above are a good example of

"Lift not the painted veil which those who live

Call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there,

And it mimic all we would believe

With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.' P.B. Shelley:SonnetThe stanza above is an example of a

He is a faithful liar

The line above is an example of

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

The dominant imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is