JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1983

There is a tide in the affairs of man

Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shadows, and miseries.

This is a statement made by

'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'

The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

You would often hear on hen remark to another,

Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, i have laid five eggs in six days'. or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,

'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water taste!'It is obvious from this passage that the narrator

'All was quiet in this park

Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced

The tyrant's coming

Then did the branches talk in agony'.

There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of

Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because

'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of

'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,

With an alien people clutching their gods.

I should be glad to another death'.Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?

'Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died by coccidiosis.'

In the passage taken from Animal Farm, the truth is that the

'No sentimentality, comrade! War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.'

This statement in Animal Farm was made by

'I have wandered on the wilderness

The great wilderness men call life

The rain has beaten me,

And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.

This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

'O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!

Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.

In our own proper entrails'.

These lines were spoken by

We sang that song before

In the thousand seasons of good harvest

And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints

On the long shores.A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is

In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'

'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of