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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

;....I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.
Who spoke these words?

  • A. Lady Macbeth
  • B. The fiest murderer
  • C. Macbeth
  • D. THE SECOND NURDERER
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1992
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THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM wOLE sOYINKA (ED) pOEMS OF BLACK AFRICA, E.K. SENANU AND T. VINCENT (EDS.) SELECTION OF AFRICAN POETRY AND E.W. PARKER (ED.) A PAGEANT OF LONGER POEMS.

The effect of the repetition of the words
'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that

  • A. a mood of bitterness is created
  • B. the poet easily reveals his anger
  • C. it captures the poet's desperation
  • D. it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1992
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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

What are the main motives of the British in the Beinin Kingdom?

  • A. Domination of the kingdom and its trade
  • B. Mediation in Benin's domestic problems
  • C. Elimination of Oba Ovonramwen
  • D. Installation of a puppet regime in Benin Kingdom
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1993
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'I hear your call
I hear if far away
I hear it break the circle'
The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

  • A. refrain
  • B. parallelism
  • C. chorus
  • D. repetition
View Answer & Discuss JAMB 1995
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This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.


In 'Hurrah for Thunder' , Christopher Okigbo recommends

  • A. immediate action and fairplay
  • B. destruction and re-creation
  • C. diligence and reconstruction
  • D. less promises and more tolerance
View Answer & Discuss (1) JAMB 1997
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