2004 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2

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'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

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This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'

Gabriel Okara: The Voice

it can be inferred from the passage above that the

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The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

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'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.

My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.

My poor brother in immaculate evening dress

Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.

Diop: The Renegade

The poet's attitude here is

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MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to

England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.

The subject matter of the passage above is the

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'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'

Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence

The dominant technique in the lines above is

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He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.

He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.

Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full

The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

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'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'

Jose Saramago: All the Names

What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

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'I am alone

From a plain away from home

Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

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Be him English

Be him Nigerian

The lines above are an example of