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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Jamb 2000 Literature In English Questions

Question 21:
This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.
The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to
  • A Draw sympathy for the old man
  • B Show the old man''s fruitless effort
  • C Show that thje skeleton itself is useful
  • D Mock the misadventure of the old man
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Question 22:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to
  • A Beware of the animals in the jungle
  • B Beware of the effects of thunder
  • C Condemn the destructive qualities of elephants
  • D Be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power
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Question 23:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap
The extract above from Wole Soyinka's
Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between
  • A Madam and receiver
  • B Tenant and telephone
  • C Landlady and tenant
  • D Receiver and thunderclap
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Question 24:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is
  • A Alliteration
  • B Onomatopeia
  • C Oxymoron
  • D Simile
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Question 25:
This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
David Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' symbolically describes the meeting between
  • A A black king and a white man
  • B Stanley and Mutesa
  • C The West and Africa
  • D Europe and a black king
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