JAMB Literature in English 1998 Past Questions

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
Soyinka's depiction of Brother Jero in the play is

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
The play is

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.
In the play, Soyinka's sympathies lie with the

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The play is built on

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

In ''Hurrah For Thunder'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Dzogbesa Lisa in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' can be equated to

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

''O incomprehensible God!

Shall my pilot be''

These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
What is the poet-persona's feeling for the reaper in Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'?

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Like many other characters of her type, Li in the novel, is able to attain progress through her

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
Li's initial aspiration in the novel is to

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
In the novel, Faku deserts Garba for

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a

This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
'''I, Michael Henchard, on this morning;..., do take an oath before God here in this Solemn place...
And this I swear upon the book before me;... !''
The oath above is taken when

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that

This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Hardy makes the novel realistic by

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Persona refers to the

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The three main unities in drama are those of

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An elegy is a poem that morns for the

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'
The literary device used here is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A melodramatic play is based on

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Romantic poetry emphasizes

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.
Oculi, 'Orphan'
These lines illustrate the use of

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
'One man with a head
shaven clean as a potato
whispered to the rising sun,
a red eye wiped by a tattered
handkerchief of clouds.'
Mtshali, 'Men in Chains
The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot.'
Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'
The mood in the lines above is one of

This question is based on Literary Principles.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'
In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.
But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.
Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'
The passage above is an example of

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'
Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'
The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'
Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'
The terseness of the prose above is employed to

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'
Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'
The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

This question is based on Literary Principles.
'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'
Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'
The tone of the lines above is

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '
The lines above in the play are delivered by

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

Brother Chume as a member of Jero's congregation is

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a