JAMB Literature in English 2004 Past Questions

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
In Acholonu's The Dissidents, the daughter of my father' is a

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
The persona in Kassam's Maji Maji represents the

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
David Diop's Loser of Everything can be seen as

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Arthur Nortje's Nightfall is written against the backdrop of

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
'Love and loveless hate' and 'Love lusterless word' in Lenrie Peters 'She Came in Silken Drapes ] suggest that

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
The allusion to Eurydice's experience in Robert Frost's Wild Grapes in an imagery of death and

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
Mohan Singh's A Village girl centers on

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.
In John Donne's Death, be not Proud, the poet believes that death is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'
Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles
The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'
Gabriel Okara: The Voice
it can be inferred from the passage above that the

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'
Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.
My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.
My poor brother in immaculate evening dress
Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.
Diop: The Renegade
The poet's attitude here is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to
England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.
The subject matter of the passage above is the

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence
The dominant technique in the lines above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.
He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.
He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.
Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full
The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names
What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I am alone
And the murmur of my lips
Carry song and tears homewards
From a plain away from home
Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola
The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
Be him English
Be him African
Be him Nigerian
The lines above are an example of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
A dramatic composition or musical play in which many or all the words are sung is called

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The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The setting in pastoral poetry is usually

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
In a narration, the first person is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Point of denouement in a literary work is the

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation
Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
The tradition of Erhuwaren endorses

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
Imagery in the play is

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
When does the play open and close?

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
'But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.
The expression hags and witches refers to

This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt
The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
The major thematic preoccupation of her play is

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
One of the enriching features of the play is the

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of

This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.
'There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upon the forest....
The two gentlemen in the excerpt above are

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The events in the novel are set in

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The last major battle in the novel is the battle

This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm
The ideological leader of the revolution in the novel is

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.
The game referred to in the passage above is

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

In the novel, the foil to Lahab's character is

This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears
In the novel, Serah dies of

This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily
Nkem leaves Odilis house because

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

This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily
'What is in the past is gone forever. it is only the present that belongs to us! Grasp what chance of happiness you can find at the moment with both hands!
The past in the extract above refers to