JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1987

'A dungeon horrible, one all sides round'

As one great furnace flamed, yet for those flames

No light, but rather darkness visible'.

The phrase 'darkness visible' in the above lines is an example of

'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

It seems she hangs upon the check of night

As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'

Romeo and JulietIn these lines Juliet's beauty is presented

A sonnet is a poem of

The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres

She said you just had to make an emotional commitment in marriage. It was like skiing, you could not see in advance what would happen but you had to let go. Maybe that was why I failed, because I didn't know what I had to let go of. For me it hadn't been like skiing, it was more like jumping off a cliff. That was the feeling I had all the time I was married, in the air, going down, waiting for the smash at the bottom.

The passage indicates that the author's experience in marriage was

'But Obatal,

God Creation,

Has a way

Of consoling the distressed.

The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

'From forth the fatal lions of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life...'

These lines from Romeo and Juliet suggest that the

An ode is best described as a

'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'

These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet?

In David Diop's 'The Vultures', the statement 'And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howing on the plantations,' suggests that

'For i have known them all already, known them all.

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons'.

The tone in these lines suggest

'The early morning smoke had now gone off the eyes of the day. Trees and houses were still wet from last night's rain, but a cool breeze caressed the world like a gentle hand.'

The dominant literary device in this passage is

An antagonist is a character in a narrative who

Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'?

''But it is not the timeTo lay wreathsFor yesterdays crimes...''Lenrie Peters in his poem, We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies

'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

''...her vesper done of all its wreathed pearls her hair she fees. Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees''.The passage gives ample evidence of the poet''s

'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.

In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

'Olu hissed, slammed the door and dash out screaming'.

The dominant figure of speech in the above sentence is

The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called

'Have you got any hands today?

'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike

'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'

'No thank you'.

In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as

A couplet is a

At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?

Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

''His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling''.This description in Great expectations refers to

In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are

The major cause of the tragedy in The Victims is

'Was it for this you took such constant care

The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare?

For this your locks in paper durance bound?

For this with tort'ring iron wreath'd round?

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was

In The Victims, the two old women play the role of

Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called

Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate

In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line

'So drunken like ancient walls'

Means that the worshipers are drunken with

In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from

In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because

A close reading of The Victims reveals that Ogugua's pr-marital and extra-marital affairs are a reflection of her

An allegory is a story

In The Victims, the affection between Ubaka and Bomboy is significant because it

Caricature is used to

The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet occurs as a result of

'The all-seeing sun

Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

Alliteration is

'what happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-

And then run?'

In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

In Great Expectations, Pips nursing of Magwitch is significant because it

In ''Abiku'', the statement ''Yams do not sprout in amulets To earth Abiku''s limbs....''Simply means

'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'

The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims?