JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2012

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."What eyes will watch our large mouths

Shaped by the laughter of big children

What eyes will watch our large mouths?" Birage Diop:VanityThe tone of the lines above is one of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

"The all seeing sun

Ne'er saw match since first the world begun."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The lines above were spoken by

These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

The casualties in Launko's End of the War

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."I cannot rest from travel: I will

Drink

Life to the lees, all times I have

Enjoyed

Greatly, have suffered greatly"

A.L. Tennyson:UlyssesThe lines above inform the reader that the poet

"They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,

Kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels

Waiting to be loaded."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:

Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....They do not see the funeral piles

At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:CasualtiesThe imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play

"Meka, kneeling down in his usual fashion with his behind up in the air.

Kelara knelt down beside him.

Amalia and her husband knelt down as well."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the actions of Meka, Kelara, Amalia and her husband signify

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.The old man slept in his favourite chair

The wind ran its fingers through his hair

He looked like a tree gone dry of sap

And his hands were dry upon his lapThe rhyme a scheme of the poem above is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

Dapped cells

Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

As night thieves."

Wole Soyinka: NightThe dominant mood in the lines above is one of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....How can i look at Oyo and say i

Hate long shiny cars? How can i

Come to the children and despise

International schools?

And Koomson comes, and the

Family sees Jesus Christ in him....The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, the weapons are to be preserved for the generation yet unborn by the

'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