JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2001

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.

I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'

Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

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'For seven days it rained that June;

A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

John Updike, Wash

The images set in the lines above are of

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

' ... In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?'

In Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn', the recurrent use of the rhetorical question in the lines above suggests

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Come away, come away, death,

And in sad cypress let me be laid...

In the lines above, the character is

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Browning's My Last Duchess apparently shows Duke's

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

This question is based on General Literary Principles

A farce refers to a drama that has elements of the

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Pa Noble became a living legend because

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

John Keats' 'Old on a Grecian Urn' expresses the idea that

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way;

And leaves the world to darkness and to me .

In the lines above from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the imagery is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

And it but mimic all we would believe

With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

The stanza above is an example of a

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'

Charles Dickens, Hard Times

From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

Laye's first-person narrative techinique

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

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The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is

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In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Catharsis is experienced

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'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!

Life and desire and dreams and death

Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,

The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Duke:

Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,

Rather than make unprofited return.

Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

Santiago loses his catch to the sharks because

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle,

CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.

BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next.

Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy when you've abandoned it for some time...

Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

The literary devices in the dialogue above are

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

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In Mapanje's When This Carnival Finally Closes', the poet is describing the

This question is based on Femi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

The war in the play symbolizes the struggle between the

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From the tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', the two persons talking hold each other in

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'

Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.

The force of the speech above is sustained on.

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The flat character in a literary work

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

The skeleton of the marlin implies the

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

This question is based on General Literary Principles

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

This question is based on General Literary Principles

The most important concepts in poetry are:

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.
The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The character of Marshal in the play shows that

This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

The sub-plots of the play are united by

This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,

These oily tears

Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

Will one day be staunched,

I swear!

Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

The tone of the poet is