JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1985

In Mission to Kala When Medza encounters Edima,

What strikes him about her is her

'I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,

Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents'.

In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word 'Forests' stands for

'... like some fish

Doped out of the deep

I have bobbed up bellywise

From stream of sleep'.

The above lines from 'Night Rain' are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker

'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;

And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.

The passage is referring to a

At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.

The setting is best described as

'Just because i am an Ijebu man, and do not belong to your tribe, the sight of me as your king gnaws at your liver, and rips your heart asunder...'

The speaker's statement is prompted by

'He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.'

The character described in the passage is the father of

In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of

'And for Mark Antony, think not of him;

For he can do no more of caesar's arm

When caesar's head is off'.

This means that Mark Antony

Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is

Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,

'He's coming', she said 'i heard the gate open.'In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating

'Serrating down your back and front

Like beak of the sword-fish,

And both your ears, notched

As a bondsman to this house...'

The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is

Odewale: I thought you were leaving with your son Aderopo.

Ojuola: It is you i married your highness, not my son.

The exchange from The Gods are not to Blame is an example of

As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because

'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.

The narrator here is full of

Brutus: This is sleepy tune. O murd'rous slumber!

Layest thou the leaden mace upon my boy,

That plays the music? Gentle knave, good night.

'Gentle knave' refers to

'All day long, all along the line

Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'

For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means

'It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.

In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to

'Is Aderopo jealous that i am sharing a bed with his mother? Very well then, let him come and sleep with his mother'.

Odewale's statement is a good example of