JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1989

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

'We have come to the crossroads

And I must either leave or come with you

I lingered over the choice

But in the darkness of my doubts

You lifted the lamp of love

And I saw in your face

The road that I should take',

'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew

The poem ends on a note of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries

If we weep gently....'

What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

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'Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.'

We will grieve not, rather find

Strength in what remains behind',....

'Ode- Intimations of Immorality

By William Worthsworth

The above lines convey a sense of

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

In a work of literature, plot is constructed on

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

The literary term used for this kind of writing is

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'...and we learn to sing half familiar half strange songs

We learn to dance to half familiar half strange rhythms...'

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A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

'Excuse me Bluntschll what did you say had spoiled your chances in life?

According to Bluntschll what had spoiled his chances in life was

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

Whom do you consider to be Ezeulu's closest friend and confidant in Umuaro?

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

Do you bring some balm

To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

Away, your enemy!'

What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

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In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

When he came back from Operi I went to his house and he talked like a sane man. I reminded him of saying that a man must dance the dance prevailing in his time...'

The above statement was made by Ofoka about

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'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'

Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

The style of writing in the passage can be described as

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

'....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

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'Hall to then, blithe spirit!

Bird thou wert,

That from Heaven, or near it,

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!

'To A Shylark' by P.B. Shelley

The main figure of speech in the above passage is

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'I have said too much unto a heart of stone

And laid mine honour too unchary out'

Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare

The above lamentation is an example of a

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

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'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

The furrow followed free;

We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea...'

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T.

Coleridge

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

Nwaka's hostility to Ezeulu is attributable to

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

The dominant literary device in the above statement is

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

In literary work, setting refers to the

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

What special function does Ramatoulaye's diary perform?

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

The play ends on a note of

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

The prologue of any work is the

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.

He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'.

Meridian by Alice Walker

The person described in the passage is

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

Ezeulu sent his son, Oduche, to join the Christians because

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

Motivation in any work is the

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

The lesson which emerges from the fate of Ezeulu is that

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

In Odia Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals', the attitude of the returnees is best described as

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

The literary device used in this passage is

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'...Ha! That motoka is motoka

It belongs to the Minister of Fairness

Who yesterday was loaded with a doctorate

At Makerere with whisky...

Plus I hear the literate thighs of an undergraduate'

The above stanza from Theo Luzuku's 'The Motoka' demonstrates that the minister is

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

...What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?

What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say if they caught us here?''

These questions are addressed to

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

In Agostinho Neto's 'Night', night basically symbolises

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

To cook and scrub

To bring forth children by the gross

Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

J.P Clak's 'Streamside Exchange, depicts an interplay of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

'...princes master their feelings to fulfil their duties 'Others' bend their heads and, in silence, accept a destiny that oppresses them. That, briefly put, is the internal ordering of our society, with its absurd divisions....'

In the above excerpt from her letter to Mawdo Ba, Aissatou sees society as