JAMB Literature in English 2011 past questions

Which Question Paper Type of Literature-in- English is given to you?

From it's resolution of conflicts, the pay can be described as

The prevailing theme of the play is ----

The final harassment of Maanan takes place in

‘Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermines my will to create pictures of lasting appeal. ' The speaker in the quotation above is

‘Farewell - God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of lie. I'll call them back again to comfort me. Nurse! - What should she do here? My dismal scene I need act alone. Come, vial'. The intention of the speaker above is to

The play reaches the point of denouncement

The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by

In the play, Mercutio can be described as

The plot of the play is

The heavy downpour on the night of Meka's investiture symbolizes

Vandermayer's attitude and action towards Meka illustrates the church's

'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up, puffing up and then deflating the skin under his chin.' The subject of description in the lines above is

For attempted murder, Nnaife was jailed for

In the novel, Nwokocha Agbadi is famous for his oratorical powers and

In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god signifies

The novel draws a picture of

The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winston's dreams of .

Room 101 symbolizes a place of

The novel can be described as

In Naked Soles, Adeoti writes that the carnival of naked soles dances through

In Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm, the thunderstorm begins with

The theme of Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is

Lanko's End of the War portrays the

'Woman cannot exist except by man, What is there in that to vex some of them so?' The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat exemplifies

Marvell, in To His Co Mistress uses the imagery of Coy death to

To sustain the interest of readers, Lawrence in Bat uses

'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.' • In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey on the Magi, the dominant literary device is

The tone of Cope's Sonnet VII is generally [PAGE 12]

The large space above the proscenium in a theatre from which the scenes are controlled is called

'Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others When you induce opponents to come to you, then their force is always empty, like attacking emptiness with fullness is throwing on eggs.' Zhang Yu: The Art of War. The theme of the passage above is

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is

In drama, dramaturge is he who

Travelogue is a work of art written

Plays are basically meant to

The plot of a story generally refers to the

The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllables is

Theseus: Now, fairHippolyta, our nuptial hour. Draws on space four happy days bring in. Another moon. But 0, me thinks how slow This old moon wanes, she lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue. William Shakespear. A midsummer Night's Dream The literary devices used in the excerpt above are

'You are the silent code of pleasure locked in wordless wonder. You are the hive of treasure, no [PAGE 14] dragon can plunder' Gbemisola Adeoti :Dream Code. The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

It was not yet closing time, but already most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it, breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one of the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and tumbled out of the lift.' Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers In the excerpt above, the subject's experience in the lift is

'Do not thank me, instead, let me ask you one question, Now you have all come here sprawling vomiting, rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you. But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves? Answer. Or is the land at peace? Are not people ailing and dying?' OIa Rotimi: The Gods Are Not To Blame In the excerpt above, the land is not at peace because of

‘In those days. When civilization kicked us in the face, when holy water slapped brows. The vultures built in the shadow of their talons.' David Diop: The Vulture The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

I am not afraid of anything; he told them. I have done almost everything in this world. I have you can think of an been committed all c y jailed for most of them. I have been in prison more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years. In recounting his criminal life, the speaker's tone is

'I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault,. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.' William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

'Blood was prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which, alone with himself, he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.' Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

'Homage to Peregede the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet. Let today's dawn bring on its rails trains of good tidings.' Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods The excerpt above is an example of

The wood decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapour weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. The subject matter of the lines above is