2012 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"What eyes will watch our large mouths

Shaped by the laughter of big children

What eyes will watch our large mouths?"

                            Birage Diop:Vanity<br />

The tone of the lines above is one of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favourite chair

The wind ran its fingers through his hair

He looked like a tree gone dry of sap

And his hands were dry upon his lap

The rhyme a scheme of the poem above is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That board, and sleep, and feed....

The lines above show that the speaker

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

....How can i look at Oyo and say i

hate long shiny cars? How can i

come to the children and despise

international schools?

And Koomson comes, and the

family sees Jesus Christ in him....

The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

                               Wole Soyinka:Night<br />

Night children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

dapped cells

Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

as night thieves."

                          Wole Soyinka: Night<br />

The dominant mood in the lines above is one of

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"The drums overwhelmed the guns..."

                         J.P Clark: Casualties<br />

The poet in the excerpt above uses

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

....They do not see the funeral piles

At home eating up the forests..."

                            J.P. Clark:Casualties<br />

The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"I cannot rest from travel: I will

drink

Life to the lees, all times I have

enjoyed

Greatly, have suffered greatly"

                         A.L. Tennyson:Ulysses<br />

The lines above inform the reader that the poet