2020 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 3

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

'...Tide and market come and go

And so shall your mother.'

The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside

Exchange' depict the

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

Lakunel is presented as a

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

''From here the island of Fogo is a presence

At Sunset

The palm trees are slow singers of farewell

The sail on the sea

Writes in geometry of spume

• departure of he who remains
  

And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes

-journey of he who never left!''

Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.
....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

The images depicted are those of

This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

'I am informed the day recycles itself today

The lord taketh the righteous away before evil days

The lines above express

This question is based on General Literary Principles

In literary convention, 'aside' is used to