JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2005

This question is based on Literary Principles

''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..

Joseph Conrald: Nostromo

The passage above describes a troop of

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'

The speaker in the passage above is referring to a

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.Madawaki: The whiteman is an uninvited guest to our land, he must observe, not dictate

The statement above is prompted by the

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse.
Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse is inspired by his struggle against

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Aesthetics in literature has to do with the creation of

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

The poet-persona in Serenade is

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

The subject matter of Senghor's I will Pronounce Your Name is

This question is based on Literary Principles

'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?

Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's

The literary device used in the excerpt above is

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

The setting of the novel is the

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

In Keats'On the Grassihopper and Cricket 'poetry of earth' refers to

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Angel Clare is depicted as

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

This question is based on Literary Principles

''She wanted to spit herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go You known I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this, ...'she slapped the Samson and Deliah.'''

Festus lyayi: Violence

In the passage above, the speaker can described as

This question is based on Literary Principles

'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.

Cynthia James: Drumology

The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Claudius, though a murderer, is presented as a character

This question is based on General Literary Principles

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becauses

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

The subject matter of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

This question is based on Literary Principles

'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?

Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay

In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

This question is based on Literary Principles

'If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky

That coin will flutter But the eagle will never fly.'

Henry Dumas: America

The poem above achieves its literary effect through the use of

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

Naana's attitude is one of

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

'Phases' in the novel refers to

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Angel Clare's ambition in marrying Tess d'Urbervilles is to secure a wife with

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

'And the name died before the man.'From the statement above in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young, what happens to the athlata?

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

This question is based on Literary Principles

'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses

The tone of the poem above is

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.Brigadier General Johnson's plan to assassinate President Monye is revealed to

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Cast in a play refers to

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse paints the picture of

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

This question is based on Literary Principles

The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of

This question is based on Literary Principles

''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.

W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening

The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

This question is based on Literary Principles

Where has my love blow his horn?

The tune of his horn is well-known

Young men of my clan

Have you heard the horn of my love?

Okot P'Bitek: Horn of My Love

The overriding feeling of the persona in this extract is