JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1985

The poem 'Viaticum' portrays a ritual preparation for

'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

In which of the following London neighborhoods mentioned in Great Expectations is Mr. Jagger's office located?

Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal?

The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as

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

'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

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

In a play denouement is the

'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

The mood expressed in 'We Have Come Home' by Lenrie Peters is that of

In a work of Literature, the hero is one

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

'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?'In this passage, lofty scene refers to

A play is a tragedy when _______

A 'gentleman' in the sense in which it is used in Great Expectations is

Because of his fiery temper as a youth, Odewale was called the

There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
The speaker uses a string of

The major lesson Pip's experience in Great Expectations teaches us is that

'The pen is mightier than the sword' is an example 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

'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

Assonance in poetry is the repetition of

'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

In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop expresses his

'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

The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show

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

In Soyinka's 'Abiku', the statement, 'The ripest fruit was saddest', 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

In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize

David Diop's poem 'The Vultures', ends in a

Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled?

A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as

'... 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

As a literary from the short story is most closely related to

'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

'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

In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means

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

In Mission to Kala When Medza encounters Edima,

What strikes him about her is her

In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare portrays the roman plebeians as

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

When David Diop in 'The Vultures' says that 'civilization kicked us in the face' and 'holy water slapped our cringing brows', he is using

Miss Havisham grooms Estella the way she does so as to make Estella

What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its

'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

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

The narrator in Mission to Kala is

Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
The dominant mood in this passage is one of