JAMB Literature in English 2015 past questions

'Busy old fool, unruly sun why windows and through curtains call on us?' The most vivid figure of speech in the lines above from Donne's The Sun Rising is

The allusion in Hughes's The Negro Speaks of Rivers is mainly

In Adeoti's Hard Lines, Sodium cyanide is

In owonibi's Honieless, not Hopeless the persona explains that street beggars

The poet persona in Serenade is a

In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, peasants refer to

In Angira's Expelled, the poet persona laments the

Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune achieves its lyrical effect through the use of

Rhythm is achieved in Raleigh's The Soul's Errand through the use of

The repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession for sound effect is

Criticism is a literary activity which seeks [PAGE 39]

„We all make decisions. Sometimes it is wrong, sometimes it is right.' The speaker in the lines above is

'Her neck is rope-like thin, long and skinny and her face sickly pale.' Okot p' Bitek: Song of Lawino. The style used in the lines is

'once upon a time son, they used to laugh with their eyes; but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow' G. Okara: Once upon a time The lines above are expressive of

'She gave out colanuts and together they ate to appease the angry earth and amadioha spoke through lightning and thunder.‟ The figure of speech in the third line above is

'Ay, your times were fine times indeed you have been telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but we never see company.' Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer. The figure of speech in the world like an inn is

'Her neck is rope-like thin, long and skinny and her face sickly pale.‟ Okot p‟ Bitek:Song of Lawino.The style used in the lines is

„Ah. sunflower, weary of time who contests the steps of the sun seeking after that sweet golden clime where the travellers' Journey is done. The figure of speech in the second line above is

„There is no art to find the minds construction on the face he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.' Shakespeare: Macbeth, The gentleman in the lines above

The flourishing fish market in the novel Is located In

As he struggled with fish and the sharks, the old man constantly talks to himself because

The subject matter of the novel is

In the Achike family, the character who is central to the theme is

The novel exposes