JAMB Literature in English 2010 past questions

Which literature in English Question Paper Type is given to you?

„I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. Everybody let me down, and the speaker above is referring to

Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

The traditional order in the play is represented by

Where does the play take place?

'0' 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

The play is mostly written in

'0' serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!' The statement above refers to

The spatial setting of the play is

Romeo is banished to Mantua because he

In the novel, the society puts high value on

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

The constant companions of Nnaife's family are

The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter‟s claim to have

Meka can be best be described as .

In the novel, the colonialists treat the Africans with

The Ministry of peace is concerned with making _.

The subject matter of the novel is

How did Winston start his rebellion against the state

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

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

'Yet in their finger upon Our navel The midwives of the spirit say They feel a foetal throb. [PAGE 4] The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs' In the Navel of the Soul is

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

The predominant device in Launko's End of the War is

The theme of the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat centres on

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

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

In Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the magi are aided on their journey by

According to Cope‟s Sonnet VII, poetry is basically .

Both comedy and tragedy have

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

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

Pun as a literary device deals with

In a narrative poem, the poet attempts to

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

Satirical writing employs _.

„Basha: 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

From the tone of the speech above, the speaker is obviously

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

'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

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

And your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows Has revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday. From the poem above, shadow means