2016 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 3

This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.

You want to known something then you run like a rabbit'

The device used in the line above is

This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.

According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

The tone of the persona in Blake's The School Boy is that of

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

'awaiting in ambush'

ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'

The image in the lines above in Morris'

The Proud King is

'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'

The rhyme scheme from Tennyson's cross the Bar is

'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'

One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is

'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'

'And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'

The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as

According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is