JAMB Literature in English 2002 Past Questions

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
And my children left their peaceful nakedness
For the uniform of iron and blood'
In the lines above from David Diop's Loser of Everything' the imagery depicts a displacement of

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
Yusuf Kassam's ' Maji Maji is presented as a

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
'Pataki and mustard flowers Like blue and yellow eyes Peep through the green grass'The literary devices used in the lines above from Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl'are

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
Lenrie Peters in 'She came in Silken Drapes' reflects

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
John Donne's 'Death be not Proud is informed by a

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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 mood of the narrator in Mohan Singh's
'A village Girl' is one of

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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 imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
'I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me'.
from Robert Frosts ' Wild Grapes' is

This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.
Arthur Nortje's 'Nightfall' despicts

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The novel is largely set in

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Old Major ends his speech to the animals with a song in order to

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The execution of some of the animals on the orders Napoleon is to

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The message of the novel is that

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of

This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The dominant impression of the first person narrative in the novel gives it

This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.
The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one

This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.

The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '
Golding, Lord of the Flies.
In the passage above, the conch symbolises

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock
George Eliot, Silas Marner
In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;
The speaker in the statement above is being

'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The mood captured in the lines above is one of

'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The literary device used is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.
In the wrong skin.
Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.
The passage above expresses the state of mind of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...'
Shakespeare, Othello
From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'
Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

This question is based on General Literary Principles
An iambic metrical foot consists of

This question is based on General Literary Principles
Empathy is achieved when the audience

This question is based on General Literary Principles
The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

This question is based on General Literary Principles
What does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?

This question is based on General Literary Principles
In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on

This question is based on General Literary Principles
An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called

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A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A limerick has

this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
The play is essentially about the

this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
In the play the general picture depicted is that of

this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Form the stage directions it is apparent that Oliver Goldsmith makes use of a

this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Hardcastle:
And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
Mrs. Hardcastle,
you're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.
The dialogue above reveals the couple's

this Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
Kate could best be described as

this Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
Characterization in the play is

this Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
The play is preoccupied with

this Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is to

this Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.
OKORO: I'll kill her today.
IDAMA: No, you won't. There, run, Koko, oh,
I say run![He pushes her gently but
firmly towards her room]
The event above happens in

this Question is based on J.P. Clark''s The Wives'' Revolt.

The plot of the play is lineal as reflected in the