JAMB Literature in English 2010 Past Questions

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.
'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......
The speaker above is referring to

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.
'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......
Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.
'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....
The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.
'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......
Where does the play takes place

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'
Deadly sin refers to the

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'
The play is mostly written in

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!
the statement above refers to

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The spatial setting of the play is

These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.


Romeo is banished to Mantua because he

these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.
In the novel the society puts high value on

these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

the medicine man links the lump discovered on the head of Nnu Ego at birth, to the

these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

The constant companion of Nnaife's family are

these questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.
The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

Meka can best be described as

These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with

These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.

The Ministry of peace is concerned with making

These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.

The subject matter of the novel is

These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.

How did Winston start his rebellion against the state?

These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.

The party seeks power for

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

As the dancers move through paths strewn with glass chips, the image in Adeoti's Naked Soles change from

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

'yet in their finger upon Our navel
The midwives of the spirit say
They feel a foetal throb.
The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs'in the Navel of the soul is

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Kunene's A heritage of liberation, the poet persona requests that the weapon of warfare be handed to their

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

The predominant device in Launko's End of war is

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

The theme of the poem Give me The Minstrel's seat centres on

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

The poet persona in Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is willing to praise the ladies eyes for

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Elliot's Journey of the Magi, the magic are aided on their journey by

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

According to Cope's Sonnet VII, poetry is basically

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.
A play which mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

Both comedy and tragedy have

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the.

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

Pun as a literary device deals with

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to

These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

The account of an experiences of an individuals during the course of a journey is known as

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.
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'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu
The person being addressed above is a

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.
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'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu

From the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.
The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

But the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the extract above IS.

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

And your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.
from the poem above, SHADOW means

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation

Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.
The speaker in the excerpt above is

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Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Wake, once,the clays of a cold star
Are limbs. so dear achieved, are
sides Full nerved still warm too hard to stir Was it, for this the clay grew tall?O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all.
THE POEM CAN BE DESCRIBED AS

Woke, once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved. are
Sides full nerved still warm too hard
To stir was it, for this the clay grew
Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams
Toil to break earth's sleep at all

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The theme of the poem is

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A cursing rogue with a merry fảrce,
A bundle of rags upon a crutch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is