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Literature in English 1991 JAMB Past Questions

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
'...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;
Tell her, red ant upon the tree;
If she passes this way, I am gone,
I am gone to load my gun
No matter how hidden deep her treasure,
By my father's coffin I swear
I'll shoot my way to it this day;
Son of the hunter King
There is liquid fire in my gun!
' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft
The beauty of this poem is built upon its
  • A. rhythm
  • B. extended images of treasure and gun
  • C. the protagonist's boastfulness
  • D. the arrangement of the lines
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
'A great city is a battlefield...You need to be a fighter to live in it, not exist, mark you, live. Anybody can exist, dragging his soul around behind him like a worn-out coat; but living is different'
'To Sir with Love' by E.R. Braithwaite
The literary device predominantly used in this passage is
  • A. simile
  • B. oxymoron
  • C. symbolism
  • D. sarcasm
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
The leaves are withered. Roses fold and shrink
Dog, the panting athlete shows his tongue A dwarled shadow flees. Hides under legs. Nuts
wrinkle and crack
'Poems in Four Parts' by W.Kamera
One dominant image presented in the poem above is that of

  • A. spent life
  • B. summer
  • C. death
  • D. tiredness
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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

'If it is true that the world talks too much
then let's all keep quiet
and hear the eloquence
of silence'
If it is True' by Richard Ntini
One striking device used by the poet above is

  • A. rhythm
  • B. contrast
  • C. alliteration
  • D. end-rhyme
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

The Fulani Creation Story' suggests that the basic problem of man is

  • A. blindness
  • B. worry
  • C. death
  • D. pride
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