JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1994

"But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

"If

A provoked houseboy

Cannot match his

Wicked master

Strength with strength,

He maims the master's favorite

Goat!"Obaruduagbon employs this proverb to explain why

"In Oyo's eyes there was now real gratitude.

Perhaps for the first time in their married life the

Man could believe that she was glad to have him

The way he was."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, from the above excerpts, Why was Oyo unhappy with her husband?

"He considers also a little fragile,because artistic:

I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A little

Pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and

Straightening up to bring out the best in me."Based on Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, the "me" in the above passage is seen as

"...Lying down in the melting snow.

There were times we regretted

The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

And the silken girls bringing sherbert."The emotion evoked in this passage from "Journey of the Magi" is that of

"The officer, surrounded by these noises,

Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

To give them time to pull themselves together, and

Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

"You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

"O Julius Caesar, thou are mighty yet

Thy spirit walks abroad."Based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the statement above is

"Rather than so, come fate, into the list,

And champion me to the utterance!"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to

"There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face...'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,the above statement means that there is no

'...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,

Sir, it provokes:it provokes the

Desire, but it takes away the performance.'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as

"The poet needs to be up at night,when the world

Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders

Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where

The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

"In the cold hand of death...

His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike

Shrunk to a sub-soil grub

His head was hallowed and his brain

On scales-was this a trick to prove

Fore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of

"Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly

Backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of

Their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They

Cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than

People, she thinks for the thousandth time.No

Ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes

"The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

The flute is flung away;

And ears strain to master the malediction

Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew

The furrow followed free

We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea."Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

"...Let the greying day grow,

...let the evening horns blow,

...let the melting mountains go...'The repetition of these lines from Atukwei Okai's

"Sunset Sonata"

UZAZAKPO:
In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your
father. That same madness has helped me
keep my body in this palace as jester under
your full moon. If you will listen to me and my
madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you
talked to the chiefs was not the right way
The tone of the above statement is

"...If someone threw you a rope when you were

Drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take this because if you

Don't take it, you will die- you would, wouldn't you? I

Mean?"Based on the novel "Piggy's",the "rope" and the doctor's prescription refers to the

"Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,

Whose word no man relies on,

Who never said a foolish thing

Nor ever did a wise one,"Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an example of

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

"Thou loosest labour

As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air

With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that

UZAZAKPO:

In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your

Father. That same madness has helped me

Keep my body in this palace as jester under

Your full moon. If you will listen to me and my

Madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you

Talked to the chiefs was not the right way'

The play above is basically a

"I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs.

Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too."Based on the novel Piggy's, The split in the group of boys occurs with the departure of

"I came down the step with my pitcher

And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

"Why should I play the Roman fool, and die

On mine own sword?"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,playing the Roman fool from the above statement implies

"Full fathom five thy father lies

Of his bones are corals made

Those are pearls that were his eyes

Nothing of him that doth fade."The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is