JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1979

Which of these secondary characters stands out from the others in the development of the action in Ozidi?

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Kontiki Expedition demonstrates human

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The Adventure of Tom Sawyer depicts Tom's

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Modern African Stories
In Alex la Guma's A Matter of Taste, it is a matter of taste to eat exactly what you want because

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In Birago Diop's 'Vanity',these two lines 'Sad complaining voices of beggars
Who indeed will hear them without laughter?'contain

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In 'Night',Soyinka describes night as

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A woman cried out.The policeman who was edging nearer had been joined by another.Both were edging nearer.Carefully and slowly.But it was not that that had made the woman cry out.She had seen one of the men's hand slip.He was now holding on by one hand only.The crowd was tense.This was the Kill.Automatically they moved forward in a body.The doctor was in the lead.
The author of this passage creates in the reader

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She rose up.She walked up to the table.She stirred up the food once more,and lifted it up from the hot plate.She picked up the second pan and placed it on the red coils.From underneath,in the cardboard box,she collected two enamel plates green with a red band.she wiped them with a white napkin hanging on the line over the bed.she brought out two forks and two spoons.
By using details, the author of the above passage makes the scene

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In 'The Vultures' the vultures are

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In 'Tell Freedom' injustice is symbolized by

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'The Choir master's Burial' shows man

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A good plot must posses

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A novel can be described as

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In 'Wild Grapes' the narrator says 'You see me celebrate two birthdays,And give myself out as two different ages because

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In 'The Call of the River Nun','O'incomprehensible God!' expresses the poet's

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In 'Telephone Conversation', the tone of the question 'You mean-like plain or milk chocolate? is

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Dennis Brutus' 'A Troubadour I Traverse' is on the following

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Which of the following statements is true of Shakespeare's Macbeth

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Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia Shall Be Free is a non-fictional work because

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The central theme of Shakespeare's As You Like It is

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Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is about one of the following

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Pick out the odd one

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Mtchali's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is about one of the following

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The difference between tragedy and comedy is

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Romeo and Juliet
"O'Romeo,Romeo!Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy father and refuse thy name"
Juliet makes this statement because

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The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is

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In a 'Portrait', a poet writes:
At mankind's feast,i take my place
In solemn,sanctimonious state,
And have the air of saying grace
While i defile the dinner plate.
The tone of this passage may be described as

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'Stream-side Exchange' primarily shows J.P Clark's interest in

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One of the following is a mark of good poetry

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'Strange Meeting' reveals the absurdity of

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In 'The Executioner's Dream',the first line 'I dream I saw an eye,a pretty eye' is

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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
In 'The Mesh' the poet 'lingered over the choice' because

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A Raisin' in the Sun
That's it.There you are.Man say to his woman got me a dream.His woman got me a dream.His woman say:I got to take hold of this here world,baby!And a woman will say:Eat your eggs and go to work....
'a dream' in this speech refers to

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Events in The Concubine are dominated by

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The Concubine
'Ihuoma,my child' Wigwe began at last,'really i ought to have come here with more people,but i have avoided formalities because i want to spare myself any embarrassment.Formalities will come later if all goes well'.
Wigwe has come to Ihuoma in order to

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Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following

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In Kossoh Town Boy,the hero presents his father as

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Point out the odd item in this list

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The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,
The vapors weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The theme of these lines is

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Although the following statement is not a direct quotation from any books,it serves as as an aid to identifying characters that appear in the works.Read it carefully and say which character is likely to make it: 'How could i have succumbed to the pressures of the corrupt society?I thought i would be a successful social reformer but now i am as bad as those i criticize'

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'Exposition' in a play means

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In Night of Seine,the word'dark' in 'listen to our dark blood beat' is used

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Mr Johnson always buys beautiful things for his wife Bamu because

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We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,
But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their goods.
I should be glad of another death.
The author of these lines is

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In 'The Duel' the line 'And the swords clicked and scrapped,and the onsets sped' indicates

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A play is drama because

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In 'Come Away My Love' Kariuki deals with the problems of

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'The Sacrilege' ends on a note of the complexity of

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Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot's Sill Marner is one of

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The dominant feeling in Leopold Sedar Senghor's 'In Memoriam' is

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