JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2016

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'

The image in the lines above in Morris'

The Proud King is

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.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

' Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increases in the overhead allocation.
This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.

The scene of the conversation in the excerpt above is

'He says

The medicine gourds are filthy,

And the herb

Are drunk from unhygienic cups'

Okot p Bitek: Song of LawinoThe poet in the lines is saying that

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

The hypocritical character in the play is

These question are based on literary Appreciation.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 That is but mocks reproof.'

William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

Othello kills himself with a

This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.

Yaremi's main job is taffeta

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'

Gabriel Okara: The Voice

It can be inferred from the passage above that the

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

The first character in the play to refers to Othello by name 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

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Weep not child, weep not my darling

With these kisses let me remove your tears

The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious

They shall no longer possess the sky....

The speaker of the lines is

This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.The family that donates to charity is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Fights by the book of arithmetic

The figure of speech in the line above is

''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.The setting of the play is

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

No. no1 Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.

The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe against others.'

O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.The speaker in the passage is

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'

The image depicted in the lines above is

This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

Kabria's second child is