JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1986

Much madness is divinest sense

To a discerning eye;

Much sense is starkest madness.

'This the majority

In this, as all, prevails.

Assent, and you are sane;

Demur,-you're straightway dangerous,

And handled with a chain.

This poem reflects the

'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'

In this passage, axe of intemperance means

'...He would be crown'd.

How that may change his nature, there's the question

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.

And that craves wary walking...'

According to this passage, the crowning of Julius Caesar is

The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.'

This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to

'Chini was breathing with a love ripeness in her eye. She was elegant, sophistication, and Nigerian costume with charm. her every movement stimulated a flow of poetry from Francois and an ebb of embarrassment from her. she called him "My mad French lover".'

The tone of this passage is

'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons

The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'

The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with

Joe Gargery is important in Great Expectations mainly because he

'' It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.'

The picture presented above is one of

''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''

In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa

'No; This my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine

Making the green and red .'

In the above lines the figure of speech used is

'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me

Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?

The speaker of these words is the father of

Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.

The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called

Baba Fakunle: How much did he give you boy?

Boy: Ten cowries, Baba.

Baba Fakunle: Hand him back nine.

The order to return nine cowries was given by Baba Fakunle because he

The gurgling drums

Echo the stars

The forest howls

And between the tress

The dark sun appears.

The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is

The bustle in a house

The morning after death

Is solemnest of industries

Enacted upon earth-

The sweeping up the heart

And putting love away

We shall not want to use again

Until eternity.

The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.

The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala

It can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that