JAMB Literature in English 2016 past questions

The usual works you know these things. We'll dangle this babe before the Chief fora price. He will employ her and we can make use of her to get what we want. She will run the errands while we pick the bucks'. The babe in the excerpt above refers to

'0! God forgive me. Is this a trap or what? God! Poor girl! Whatever is her reason for this dangerous decision.'

The central setting of the play is

‘Good day (He says without looking up.) See me there by 4 p.m. Okay? Bye!' there in the excerpt above refers to the

Chief Ade Amaka is involved in which of the following crime?

'ill-starred wench, pale as thy smock, When we shall meet at compt.' The device used in the lines above is

Othello kills Desdemona because the

Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because

'soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't No more of that, I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate ', The speech above is made. when the speaker is

'0 heaven; How got she out? 0 treason of the blood. Father, from hence trust not your daughters' minds By what you see them act. Is there not charms By which the property of youth [PAGE 45] and maidhood [PAGE 46] May be abused? The speaker of the excerpt above is

The name of Kabria's husband is

'She was both a child and an adult and could act like both The character being referred to in the excerpt above is

The question is based on AmmaDarko's Faceless. The writer of the novel is from

Windows in mourning in Kufi wear garments that are

In the novel bage cap signifies everlasting

Yaremiss only son is

Bigger burns Mary body in the

Mary's lover is

'Suppose Mary had not burned? Suppose she was still there, expose' The dominant literacy device in the excerpt above is

Bigger and the gang rob Negroes because

One of the themes in Morris The Proud King is [PAGE 48]

'The panic Of growing older Spreads fluttering wings from year to year' The dominant figure of speech in the lines above from Peters' The Panic of Growing Older is

Kofi Awoonor is a poet from

Okara's Piano and Drums symbolizes

But such a tide moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.' The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is

'So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure.' The lines above from Herbert's The Pulley is an example of

Blake's The School Boy can be referred to as [PAGE 49]

`If we cry roughly of our torments; Ever increasing from the start of things, What eyes will watch our large mouths; Shaped by the laughter of big children What eyes will watch our large mouths?' The language of the persona of the above excerpt in Diop's Vanity is

'Dinner tonight conies with; gun wounds, Our desert tongues lick the vegetable; blood-the pepper' From the lines above in Hallowell's The Dining Table, the persona is

'blue Peter on empty ships all peters with petered out desires.' It can be deduced from the lines above in Adeoti's Ambush that the Peters are

An art that is both literary and theatrical is

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

In literature, a round character is associated with

In a narrative poem, the post attempts to

The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is

The plot of a story generally refers to the

What basically distinguish literature from other disciplines

In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as

Weep not child, weep not my darling, With these kisses, let me remove your tears The ravening clouds shall no longer be victorious They shall no longer possess the sky ...The speaker of the lines is

'You see that Benz at the rich's end? Ha! That motoka is motoka,lt belongs to the Minister for fairness. Who yesterday was loaded with a doctorate. At Makerere with whisky and I don't know what Plus I hear the literate thighs of an undergraduate Theo Luzuka: The Motoka The excerpt above can be described as

`... for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths; of all the western stars, until I die.'Tennyson: Ulysses. From the excerpt above, the persona does not intend to

'And my children left their peaceful nakedness for the uniform of iron and blood.' David Diop: Loser of Everything. In the lines above, the imagery depicts a displacement of

'Now we have come to you, And are amazed to find Those you have loved and respected Mock you to your face.' Kwesi Braw: Lest we should Be The Last The lines above convey the feeling of

The times has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man sadiku. My manhood ended near a week ago. The lines above reveal that the speaker

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

‘The leaves are withered Roses fold and shrink Dog the panting athlete shows his tongue dwarled A shadow flees Nude under and crack.' Nuts wrinkle and crack.' W. Kamera: Poems in Four Parts. One dominant image presented in the lines above is that of

When I remember by gone days I think how evening follows morning So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love not yet born. The period of life the poet has arrived at is

‘Behold her, single in the field You solitary Highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself O listen! For the value profound is overflowing with sound.' Words worth: The Solitary Reaper. The lines above constitute