JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1979

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

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

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

In 'Tell Freedom' injustice is symbolized by

In 'The Vultures' the vultures are

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

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

A play is drama because

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

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

Mr Johnson always buys beautiful things for his wife Bamu because

A good plot must posses

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

In 'Night',Soyinka describes night as

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

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

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

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

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

The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is

One of the following is a mark of good poetry

A novel can be described as

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

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

In Kossoh Town Boy,the hero presents his father as

'Strange Meeting' reveals the absurdity of

Events in The Concubine are dominated by

Point out the odd item in this list

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

Pick out the odd one

Kontiki Expedition demonstrates human

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

The difference between tragedy and comedy is

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

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

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

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

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

'The Choir master's Burial' shows man

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer depicts Tom's

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Exposition' in a play means

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

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