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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

The lines above inform the reader that the poet