JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2010

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'

The play is mostly written in

These questions are based on Literary AppreciationBut the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

The subject matter of the extract above IS.

Woke, once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved. are

Sides full nerved still warm too hard

To stir was it, for this the clay grew

Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams

Toil to break earth's sleep at allUse the lines above to answer this questions;The theme of the poem is

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

Where does the play takes place

These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

The speaker in the excerpt above is

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the.

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....

The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

These questions are based on Literary AppreciationAnd your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

From the poem above, SHADOW means

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

A play which mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

The statement above refers to

Use the lines below to answer these two questions.A cursing rogue with a merry fảrce,

A bundle of rags upon a crutch,

Stumbled upon that windy place

Called cruachan, and it was as much.

The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel the society puts high value on

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.
use the quotation below to answer these two questions
'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu
The person being addressed above is a

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

Use the quotation below to answer these two questions

'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?

Wole Soyinka: King BaabuFrom the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.'yet in their finger upon Our navel

The midwives of the spirit say

They feel a foetal throb.

The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs'in the Navel of the soul is

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

The speaker above is referring to

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'
Deadly sin refers to the

These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is