2002 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 3

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock
George Eliot, Silas Marner
In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;
The speaker in the statement above is being

'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The mood captured in the lines above is one of

'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,
hold back hold back-is the time- oh
endless time-slung in oblivion,
make minced meat of your prey.'
Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.
The literary device used is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.
In the wrong skin.
Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.
The passage above expresses the state of mind of

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...'
Shakespeare, Othello
From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'
Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes

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'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called

This question is based on General Literary Principles
A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as