JAMB - Literature In English (2011)

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These questions are based on general Literary principles
The large space above the proscenium in a theatre from which the scenes are controlled is called
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(C)
flies
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

'Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others...
When you induce an opponent to come to you, then their force is always empty,
like attacking emptiness with fullness is throwing stones on eggs.'
Zhang Yu: The Art of War
The theme of the passage above is
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(C)
war
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of a line is
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(D)
parallelism
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

A ballad is meant to be
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(D)
sung
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

In  drama, dramaturge is he who
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(A)
writes or edits plays
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

Travellogue is a work of art written
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(C)
on a journey
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

Plays are basically meant to
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(C)
be presented on stage
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

A character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is
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(B)
stock character
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

The plot of a story generally refers to the
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(B)
way in which the events of the story are organized
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These questions are based on general Literary principles

The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllable is
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(B)
iambic pentametre
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.
Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour
Draw on space for happy day bring in another moon.
But, O, me thinks how slow.
The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-drama or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man's revenue.
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The literary device used in the excerpt above are
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(A)
personification and simile
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder
You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code
The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of
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(D)
metaphor and rhyme
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.'
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.
In the excerpt above,the subject's experience in the lift is
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(B)
unpleasant
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'
David Diop: The vulture
The dominant literary device used in the lines above is
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(B)
personification
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

''Do not thank me, instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling, vomiting, rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you.
But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace?
Are not people ailing and dying
Ola Rotimi: The Gods Are Not To Blame
 In the excerpt above, the land is not at peace because of _____
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(C)
sickness and death
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.
I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most of them.
I have been in prison for more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life, the speaker's tone is
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(D)
boastful
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is That is but mocks reproof.'
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of
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(C)
metaphor
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These question are based on literary Appreciation.

'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.
The excerpt above is an example of
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(A)
invocation
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.
''Blood was to prove no solace to the king.
The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,
alone with himself, he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'
Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.
The narrator's attitude to the king is one of
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(C)
contempt
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These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

The wood decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapour weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The subject matter of the line above is
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(A)
death
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These question is base on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god signifies
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(A)
reincarnation
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These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
From it's resolution of conflicts, the play can be described as a
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(B)
farce
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These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

The prevailing theme of the play is
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(C)
self-will
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These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

The final harassment of Maanan takes place in
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(C)
Ofosu's house
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'Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermine my will to create pictures of lasting appeal...'
The speaker in the quotation above is
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(D)
Frusrated
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These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I'll call them back again to comfort me.
Nurse!-What should she do here?
My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.
The intention of the speaker above is to
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(A)
commit suicide
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These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The play reaches reaches the point of denouement
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(C)
when Romeo is informed of Juliet's death
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These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by
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(A)
Balthasar
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These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In the play, Mercutio can be described as
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(C)
kind-hearted
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These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The plot of the play is
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(D)
complicated
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These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.
The heavy downpour on the night of Meka's investiture symbolises.
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(D)
mockery
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These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

Vandermayer's attitude and action towards Meka illustrates the church's
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(B)
infuriation
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These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and
then deflating the skin under his chin'.
The subject of description in the line above is
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(A)
the high commissioner
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These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.
For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for
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(D)
three months
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These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel Nwokocha Agbadi is famous for his oratorical power and
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(C)
wealth
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These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.
The novel draws a picture of
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(B)
a totalitarian future
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

The theme of the Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is
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(B)
the futility of man and his tradition
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm,
the thunderstorm begins with
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(B)
rain from the east
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Naked soles, Adeoti writes that the carnival of naked soles dances through

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(A)
scorching sun
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These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

The novel can be described as
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(A)
optimistic
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These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

Room 101 symbolizes a place of
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(C)
torture
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These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winton's dreams of
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(B)
wealth and capitalism
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the
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(A)
people's struggle for survival
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Launko's End of the War portrays the
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(B)
irony of life
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These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

'Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies
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(D)
rhetorical question