JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1987

'But Obatal,

God Creation,

Has a way

Of consoling the distressed.

The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'

These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

She said you just had to make an emotional commitment in marriage. It was like skiing, you could not see in advance what would happen but you had to let go. Maybe that was why I failed, because I didn't know what I had to let go of. For me it hadn't been like skiing, it was more like jumping off a cliff. That was the feeling I had all the time I was married, in the air, going down, waiting for the smash at the bottom.

The passage indicates that the author's experience in marriage was

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?

Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

'The early morning smoke had now gone off the eyes of the day. Trees and houses were still wet from last night's rain, but a cool breeze caressed the world like a gentle hand.'

The dominant literary device in this passage is

'what happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-

And then run?'

In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

'From forth the fatal lions of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...'

These lines from Romeo and Juliet suggest that the

'Have you got any hands today?

'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike

'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'

'No thank you'.

In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as

'For i have known them all already, known them all.

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons'.

The tone in these lines suggest

'Olu hissed, slammed the door and dash out screaming'.

The dominant figure of speech in the above sentence is

In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line

'So drunken like ancient walls'

Means that the worshipers are drunken with

'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

'The all-seeing sun

Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

'Was it for this you took such constant care

The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare?

For this your locks in paper durance bound?

For this with tort'ring iron wreath'd round?

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

It seems she hangs upon the check of night

As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'

Romeo and JulietIn these lines Juliet's beauty is presented

A sonnet is a poem of

'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'

The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.

In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

'A dungeon horrible, one all sides round'

As one great furnace flamed, yet for those flames

No light, but rather darkness visible'.

The phrase 'darkness visible' in the above lines is an example of