JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1988

This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.

The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

Either withdraw unto some private place,

Or reason coldly of your grievances,

Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

This appeal is made by

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Genres of literature aptly describes

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

The story in the book is told from the point of view of

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

The real victims are

THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

'See what a scourage is laid upon your hate

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

And I, for winking at your discords too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen...'

The speaker of these lines is

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

'Wisely and slow. The stumble that run fast'.

This note of caution comes from

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.

In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside....

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.

Odewale says this because

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil

From lamps'.

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there

He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.

This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME Well it wasn't there anymore with him?

Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?

The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

'But what wakeful of man,

Made of the mud of this earth,

Can stare at the touch of sleep

The stable vehicle of dream

Which indeed is the look of your eyes?'

These lines from J.P. Clark's 'Olokun' suggests that Olokun eyes

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.The following epithets:

'The courageous captain of compliments...

The very butcher of a silk button...

A gentleman of the very first house...'

Refer to