JAMB Literature in English 2006 Past Questions

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
The subject matter of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.

The character addressed in Serenade is

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
Apart from his lover, the poet in Senghor's I will Pronounce Your Name is also concerned with his

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
In Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the poet sees the death of the young athlete as

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse paints the picture of

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
Milton's On His Blindness teaches human beings to

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.
In Clark's Agbor Dancer, the drum is central to the message because it

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones time never shirking and never volunteering for extra either'.
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Form the passage above, the character being described is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
The hunter dies and leaves his poverty to his gun
The blacksmith dies and leaves his poverty to his anvil..
The extract above is an example of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'
Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir
The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through the use of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
' 'O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!
Tony E. Afejuku: An Orchard of Wishes
The literary device used in the lines above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed, some slain in war
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
All murdered;
William Shakespeare:King Richard II
The subject matter of the speech above is

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'On the broken walls,
Bats hang away from the sun
Shadows of an ancient stranger
Cast their presence over our shoulders
A pathway leads to the abandoned gate.'
Mazisi Kunene: The Fearful Ruin
The dominant mood in the excerpt above is that of

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'
Patricia Melo: The Killer
The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.
'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;
J.P Clark: Olokun
A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

This question is on Literary Appreciation
'... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'You are the cold nests
In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'
Kittobbe: To the Childless
The device used in the excerpt above is

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
The death of Prince can be said to

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's
The theme of chance is graphically demonstrated by the

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man
The tension generated at Ipaja and Iwuya early in the novel is a result of

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man
After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New Man

In terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s Fragments.

The Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.
Boateng describes the writers' studio as a place where

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Ghost serves to

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
'But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother....'
The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The king's clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Form the viewpoint of the British government, the attack on the Sokoto Caliphate is

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
Abbas the beggar is a symbol of

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The physical setting within which the action of a narrative takes place is the

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima''s Attahiru.

The play is historical because it deals with

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A work which takes place in a non-existent world or which concerns an incredible character is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A humorous scene, incident or speech in the course of a serious fiction or drama is a

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A travelogue is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
Flash back in a literary work help to

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
An address to a metaphysical source of inspiration by a poet is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A complex plot can be described as the plot structure that has

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The sides of a stage are called

This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

The character attributes of Attahiru qualify him as

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.

In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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.): Weast African Verse.

Keats' on the Grasshopper and Cricket is best described as