JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1984

'Contrition twines me like a snake

Each time i come upon the wake

Of your clan,...'

In this passage 'contrition' is

'We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers' footprints on the long shores.'

The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor's 'More messenger' is

'Clothes were like tattered flags

Flying off

To expose dangling breasts

As jaggered blinding flashes

Rumble, tremble, and crack

Amidst the smell of fired smoke

And the pelting march of the storm'The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of

In Animal Farm, the song

'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,

Beasts of every land and clime,

Hearken to my joyful tidings

Of the golden future time.was first sung by

'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'The last statement in this passage is an example of

'Thou art the giver of

All that thy creatures love,

Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;

Every beast great or small

Sleeps at peace in his stall

Thou watchest over all...'The poem (Animal Farm) refers to

These question are based on literary Appreciation.I am not afraid of anything he told them.

I have done almost everything in this world.I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most them.I have been in prison more hours than i have been out of it within the last five years.

In recounting his criminal life,the speaker's tone is

'...A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.'

In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates

'When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo's compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the "obi" He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur'

This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are

'There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,

The earth and every common sight

To me did seem

Appareled in celestial light

The glory and the freshness of a dream.

It is not now as it hath been of yore:

Turn wheresoever i may,

By night or day

The things which have seen i now can see no more.'

The mood captured in this passage is one of

In 'Nuit de Sine,'the word 'dark' in 'listern to our dark blood beat' is used

We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.

In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

'A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother's hut and tears stood in his eyes.'

The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

'Vanished. Transported. Utterly transmuted.

I knew it. i knew i stood in the presence of God...

This statement of Ecstasy was made in The Trials Of Brother Jero by

Besides describing scenes of African village night, Senghor's poem 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definiten statement about

'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours...'

The description of the town in this passage suggests

'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that

'Let me listen in the smoky hut where there comes a glimpse of the friendly spirits

My head on your bosom warm like a dang smoking from the fire'.The dang in the verse from 'Nuit de Sine' refers to