JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1980

Ajụjụ 1 Ripọtì

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses

hyperbole

metonymy

onomatopoeia

simile

apostophe Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 2 Ripọtì

The doctors looked at chris johannes.
They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

it shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit Azịza ziri ezi

it lead to the arrest of the miners by the police

it shows the bad conditions of the mines

it ios the result of panic

it keeps xuma out of trouble.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 3 Ripọtì

The main purpose of drama is to

tell the story of dead people

teach us how to write

educate us

entertain us

both educate and entertain us. Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 4 Ripọtì

Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because

he was very hungry after his period of fasting

the Yam won the agriculture contest

it belonged to the Royal House

it symbolized the acqusition of Power Azịza ziri ezi

he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 5 Ripọtì

In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are

abused

accursed

romanticized

praised Azịza ziri ezi

admonished

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 6 Ripọtì

The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was

the water snake

old plop

alacko Azịza ziri ezi

geronimo

achilles.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na “Bat” By David H. Lawrence (WAEC)

“Bat” By David H. Lawrence

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 7 Ripọtì

'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

fun

ill heath

carelessness Azịza ziri ezi

sacrifice

dicting

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na General Literary Principles (JAMB)

Poetry

General Literary Principles

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 8 Ripọtì

Which one of the following is true of Lady Macbeth?

She is wicked and hates her husband

She tells lies against Duncan

She does not receive Duncan Warmly

She conspires with those guiding Duncan

She is a loving wife to her husband Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 9 Ripọtì

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

his bed has always uncomfortable

he has sleepless nights

he has no literary pretensions Azịza ziri ezi

he is well-versed in rhetorics

he is a poor sleeper.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na General Literary Principles (JAMB)

General Literary Principles

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 10 Ripọtì

Kongi's Harvest

Kongi is a democratic ruler

Kongi is a socialist

Kongi is a dictator Azịza ziri ezi

Kongi is a respecter of tradition

none of the above

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka (WAEC)

The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 11 Ripọtì

To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by

Banqo and his son Azịza ziri ezi

two murderers

lady Macbeth

lady Macbeth and a servant

Banqo

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Drama

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 12 Ripọtì

In As You Like It Orland's defeat of charles, the Duke's wrestler made his brother Oliver

decide to reconcile with him

plan to kill him Azịza ziri ezi

hate him more

ask the servant, Adam to drive him away

give him his deserved inheritance.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na A Midsummer Night’s Dream (WAEC)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 13 Ripọtì

There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is

Lena

Drunk Liz

Malsey

Paddy

Eliza. Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 14 Ripọtì

'Thou losest labour
As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed'
Macbeth contempt from Macduff's effort in this battle scene arises from

the quality of his military uniform

the fact that he cannot be hurt by mortals

the fact that the witches has given him charms

the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him Azịza ziri ezi

the fact that he is as light as Air.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 15 Ripọtì

Kongi's harvest is

a political drama Azịza ziri ezi

social comedy

a play about natural rulers

a historical tragedy

a domestic comedy.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Drama

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 16 Ripọtì

One of the themes of macbeth is

how to become a thene

the prophecy of the weird sisters

the fight with the macduff

the defect of evil by good Azịza ziri ezi

the death of duncan.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Drama

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 17 Ripọtì

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's

cleverness

versatility

moral weakness

romatic disposition Azịza ziri ezi

evil nature

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Literary Appreciation (JAMB)

Poetry

Literary Appreciation

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 18 Ripọtì

In As You Like It, the verse which begins

' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about

a storm in winter

man's ingratitude

Duk Senior cave Azịza ziri ezi

Le Beau's love for Snowballs

Oriando's love for Rosalind

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na A Midsummer Night’s Dream (WAEC)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 19 Ripọtì

Ananse knew who loved his daughter most through

the quality of gifts they sent to him

the eagerness which each showed to marry her

thier reactions to the news of Anansewa's death Azịza ziri ezi

the words of thier messengers

the letters the chief wrote to them.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Drama (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Drama

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 20 Ripọtì

The feeding in the poem 'Nightfall in soweto' is one of

gratitude

love

hate

joy Azịza ziri ezi

safety

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 21 Ripọtì

Kofi had to live under a master and go to school in keta because

his mothr lived in keta

his father was transfer ti abor

he lost his school fees to gamblers

his father's school was a junior school Azịza ziri ezi

his father wanted to punish him.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 22 Ripọtì

The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of

self interest

economy

changing jobs

self help Azịza ziri ezi

political protest

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 23 Ripọtì

'Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning'.
It is suggested in this lines that

the beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city

the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning Azịza ziri ezi

the beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated

the beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning

there is no beauty on earth

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 24 Ripọtì

Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane

was responsible for his transfers

exacted obedience from his wife Azịza ziri ezi

fiiled his children with fear and pain

gave him a very good reputation

made his teacher rebel against him

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta (WAEC)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 25 Ripọtì

In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi's father was a headmaster, kofi

wore shoe to school Azịza ziri ezi

started school early

went to school when he liked

wasn rude to his teachers

was very popular with the school children

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 26 Ripọtì

The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night .

when Banquo was murdered

before macbeth was killed

when the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy

when macbeth went to see the witches

when duncan was murdered. Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 27 Ripọtì

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

a great noble man

a devout christain

an apicurian in taste Azịza ziri ezi

a jovial character

an ambitious man

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Literary Appreciation (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na General Literary Principles (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Literary Appreciation

General Literary Principles

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 28 Ripọtì

The dominant images in Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth are those of

love and beauty

youth and joy

death and burial Azịza ziri ezi

the sweetness of wooling

the richness of a man's memory

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 29 Ripọtì

'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as

complaining continually about life

unwillingness to agree and work with others.

ceaseless labour and search for challenges Azịza ziri ezi

dislike of one's country or home

roaming and idling.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 30 Ripọtì

In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

a particular immortal Bird Azịza ziri ezi

all nightingales

artistic expression

philosophical statement

the nightingale Ruth heard

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 31 Ripọtì

Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because

he was hungry

he was greedy

he was afraid

he thought they were wild Azịza ziri ezi

they refuse to give him food.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na “Raider Of The Treasure Trove” By Lade Wosornu (WAEC)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

“Raider Of The Treasure Trove” By Lade Wosornu

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 32 Ripọtì

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

smile

onomatopeia

metaphor Azịza ziri ezi

archaism

metonymy

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 33 Ripọtì

One of the differences between tragedy and comedy is

there is humour in comedy but not in tragedy

there id suffering in tragedy but not in comedy

there is feasting in comedy but not in tragedy

there is a happy ending in comedy but not in tragedy Azịza ziri ezi

none of the above

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 34 Ripọtì

'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.
This character may best be described as a woman

of habit

of poor means

of wide literary interest Azịza ziri ezi

with poor memory

who loved her mother

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 35 Ripọtì

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

analogies Azịza ziri ezi

rhetorical questions

apostrophes

exaggerations

similes.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 36 Ripọtì

Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?

xuma

Leah

Ma plank

Dladia Azịza ziri ezi

Joseph.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 37 Ripọtì

In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes

flood

ancestor

modernity Azịza ziri ezi

sacrifise

golden girl

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 38 Ripọtì

One of themes of As You Like It Is

life in the forest

wrestling matches

disguise

the meaning of true love Azịza ziri ezi

banishment.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na A Midsummer Night’s Dream (WAEC)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 39 Ripọtì

The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is

suffering and oppression Azịza ziri ezi

laughter and happiness

singing and merry making

love for a woman

long journey

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 40 Ripọtì

In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if

the blacks forced out the whites

the whites packed their bags and went away peacefully

the whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks

black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin Azịza ziri ezi

unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Literary Appreciation (JAMB)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Literary Appreciation

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 41 Ripọtì

'She came in silken Drapes' is about the

virtures of love Azịza ziri ezi

killing of a coral snake

danger of false love

beautiful butterfly

sleeping leopards.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 42 Ripọtì

''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.

The passage achieve realism through the use of

details Azịza ziri ezi

simple words

the long sentence

the past tense

punctuation.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 43 Ripọtì

'Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken'
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

alternative rhymes

triplets

couplets Azịza ziri ezi

free verse

blank verse

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 44 Ripọtì

In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as

erratic

a political agitator

wicked

unlucky

strict. Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 45 Ripọtì

'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....

The end Azịza ziri ezi

a lover's Hope

Joy's of being in love

The journey of life

Glad lover

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 46 Ripọtì

In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could

become pagans

appreciate the beauty of Nature more Azịza ziri ezi

go to see Proteus and Triton

become part of Nation

give their 'hearts aways

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 47 Ripọtì

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

what he actually witnessed Azịza ziri ezi

an imaginary event

what he read about in the pspers

what the prison wader told him

what everyone knows.

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka (WAEC)

The Lion And The Jewel By Wole Soyinka

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 48 Ripọtì

Poetry deals with one of the following

emotion only

death only

ideas only

emotion and ideas Azịza ziri ezi

beauty only

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 49 Ripọtì

Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of

European female sophistication

the disaster of an African wishing to be European Azịza ziri ezi

moral decadence in South African where women smoke

the hardship of a black female teacher

the loneliness of a female teacher in Malay Camp

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta (WAEC)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Let Me Die Alone By John K. Kargbo (WAEC)

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Prose (JAMB)

Second Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta

Let Me Die Alone By John K. Kargbo

Prose

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 50 Ripọtì

'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

simile

metaphor

polysyndeton

monosyndeton

alliteration Azịza ziri ezi

Akọwa Nkọwa

Gụọ akwụkwọ nkuzi na Poetry (JAMB)

Poetry

Lee Azịza






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