JAMB - Literature In English (2000)

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Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called
Answer
(D)
flashback
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The language of the play is
Answer
(D)
metaphoric
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....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

The images depicted are those of

Answer
(D)
suffering and brutality
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....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

The speech is made by

Answer
(C)
Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
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X: What country, friends, is this?
Y: This is lllyria, lady.
X: And what should I do in lllyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown' d;....

The dialogue above takes place

Answer
(C)
by the sea-coast of lllyria
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The author successfully conveys his message through
Answer
(D)
comedy of errors
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Valentine:
....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,
And water once a day her chamber round
With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

The imagery above describes

Answer
(D)
Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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The play is about love
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(D)
commitment and marriage
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Two major elements of the diction in the play are the
Answer
(D)
status and emotion of the speakers
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The success of the novel lies in the author's
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(B)
effective use of sociological and fictional materials
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The most important objects in the hut are the
Answer
(D)
pots containing the magic charms
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The friendship between Laye and Marie lasted because
Answer
(B)
they had mutual respect for each other
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The novel is an expose of the
Answer
(C)
travails of the girl-child
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For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to
Answer
(C)
drink a bowl of garri
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Adah's sojourn in London reveals that
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(D)
the plight of the black woman does not change
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The old man's experience is a lesson in
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(A)
endurance and hardwork
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'The old man was dreaming about the lions' suggests that he is
Answer
(B)
still determined and hopeful
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The novel is set in the
Answer
(B)
fishing coast of Havana
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The plot of the novel revolves around
Answer
(B)
a man's adventure on the sea
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The author's thematic concern is
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(D)
the ability to rise above defeat
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The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to
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(A)
draw sympathy for the old man
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

"Hurrah for Thunder" by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

Answer
(D)
be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap'

The extract above from Wole Soyinka's "Telephone Conversation" shows the friction between

Answer
(C)
landlady and tenant
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In Wole Soyinka's "Telephone Conversation," the dominant literary technique deployed is

Answer
(A)
alliteration
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

David Rubadiri's "Stanley meets Mutesa" symbolically describes the meeting between

Answer
(C)
the West and Africa
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The pervasive mood of the speaker in Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto' is that of

Answer
(B)
terror and insecurity
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This question is based on selected poems from:

R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The stanza form of Mapanje's "When this Carnival Finally Closes" is

Answer
(D)
a free verse
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

The dominant images in Niyi Osundare's "They Too are the Earth" are

Answer
(C)
poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
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This question is based on selected poems from: R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'... It is not yet dawn
And we wake from one nightmare
To another.'

In these lines from Ojaide's "The Owl Wake Us", the mood is that of a

Answer
(C)
vicious cycle of oppression
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

In Browning's "My Last Duchess'" the poet persona's attitude toward the Duchess is that of

Answer
(D)
scorn
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This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," John Keats is concerned with

Answer
(D)
everlasting beauty of art
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The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is
Answer
(B)
hamartia
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The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implications in the play is
Answer
(B)
euphemism
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A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a
Answer
(B)
flat character
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A panegyric poem is composed to
Answer
(C)
praise
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The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
Answer
(D)
participatory narrator
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A primary ballad is associated with
Answer
(D)
rural folk
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A trilogy is the
Answer
(D)
series of related stories divided into three equal parts
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A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is
Answer
(C)
picaresque
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The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is
Answer
(A)
motif
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Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of
Answer
(D)
metonymy
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Mock-heroic poetry elevates
Answer
(B)
trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
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Lineation refers to
Answer
(C)
the arrangement of lines in verse form
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'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace''

Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.

The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is

Answer
(B)
compassionate
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'In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks. Ezeulu does not want to refuse the white man's call and so he is sending his son!'

Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

The lines above illustrate the use of

Answer
(B)
extended proverb