JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1981

Drama is essentially different from poetry because

'Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head'
The speaker of the above lines from As You Like It' is

The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves...'
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

'Now the bells are tolling
A year is dead.
And my heart is slowly beating
the Nunc Dimittis
to all my hopes and mute
yearnings of a year
and ghost hover round
dream beyond dream'.

For this poet, the passing year has

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses

'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to

'The Myth of the Bagre' is an example of

In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet

Which of the following characters was assassinated by an unknown assailant in 'Mine Boy'

'They have tied me to a stake:I cannot fly, But bear like i must fight the course'.
Macbeth here is represented as

Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he

The banished Duke regained his kingdom when his brother Frederick

After the murder of Duncan , Macbeth was still dissatisfied because

The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth

'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor, have only my dreams; l have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.
The poet of these lines

In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because

'Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.

In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of

Part of the meaning of Kongi's Harvest lies in the fact that Kongi's final harvest is

'But 't is strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instrument of darkness tells us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences'.
These words were spoken by

When Kofi's grandparents in The Narrow Path learnt that Nani wanted to marry Edzi, they

'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of

George Kweku Ananse in the marriage of Anansewa was

Zambia Shall Be Free is a

In Kongi's Harvest, Wole Soyinka dramatizes

Which of the following statements best describes comedy

Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando

In Kongi's Harvest, there is a struggle for power between Kongi and

'During this speech the elders who didn't understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could speak for them, a man who knew the wisdom of the old white people, not like the small boys nowadays who cant even read a telegram'.
In these passage the elders are presented as

At mines where Xuma worked, the workers were

Which group of characters appears in Macbeth?

Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as

In As You Like It, the forest of Arden could symbolize

The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because

When Xuma talked to Di about Eliza, she

The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes

Leah was finally arrested by the police because she

In Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' Mtu Mweupe Karibu means

What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his

''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.

The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Traverse'indicate that the poet

Who accompanied Kongi on his retreat

Macbeth is confident that he will not be defeated in battle because

In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was

Because he was transferred often, Kofi's father in 'The Narrow Path'

As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was

The marriage of Anansewa is a play based on Ghanian

In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to

Peter Abraham's Mine Boy can be described as a

'The celebration is now ended
but the echoes are all around
whirling like a harmattan
whirl-wind throwing dust around
and hands cover faces and feet grope'

There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

Anansewa's grandmother prays that the man who marries Anansewa

S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about