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Question 1121

jamb 1980

'And 'mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran'.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

Asimile

Bmetaphor

Cpolysyndeton

Dmonosyndeton

Ealliteration

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Question 1122

jamb 1980

'She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale'.
This character may best be described as a woman

Aof habit

Bof poor means

Cof wide literary interest

Dwith poor memory

Ewho loved her mother

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Question 1123

jamb 1980

'Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning'.

It is suggested in this lines that

Athe beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city

Bthe beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning

Cthe beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated

Dthe beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning

Ethere is no beauty on earth

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Question 1124

jamb 1980

'We are all diseas'd,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it'.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

Afun

Bill heath

Ccarelessness

Dsacrifice

Edicting

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Question 1125

jamb 1980

''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.

The passage achieve realism through the use of

Adetails

Bsimple words

Cthe long sentence

Dthe past tense

Epunctuation.

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Question 1126

jamb 1980

'If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part....'
An appropriate title for these lines is.....

AThe end

Ba lover's Hope

CJoy's of being in love

DThe journey of life

EGlad lover

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Question 1127

jamb 1980

'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

Aanalogies

Brhetorical questions

Capostrophes

Dexaggerations

Esimiles.

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Question 1128

jamb 1980

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that

Ahis bed has always uncomfortable

Bhe has sleepless nights

Che has no literary pretensions

Dhe is well-versed in rhetorics

Ehe is a poor sleeper.

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Question 1129

jamb 1980

In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about

Awhat he actually witnessed

Ban imaginary event

Cwhat he read about in the pspers

Dwhat the prison wader told him

Ewhat everyone knows.

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Question 1130

jamb 1980

In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of

Aa particular immortal Bird

Ball nightingales

Cartistic expression

Dphilosophical statement

Ethe nightingale Ruth heard

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Question 1131

jamb 1980

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

Asmile

Bonomatopeia

Cmetaphor

Darchaism

Emetonymy

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Question 1132

jamb 1980

'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments'
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as

Acomplaining continually about life

Bunwillingness to agree and work with others.

Cceaseless labour and search for challenges

Ddislike of one's country or home

Eroaming and idling.

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Question 1133

jamb 1980

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'
In these lines Shakespare uses

Ahyperbole

Bmetonymy

Conomatopoeia

Dsimile

Eapostophe

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Question 1134

jamb 1980

Kongi's harvest is

Aa political drama

Bsocial comedy

Ca play about natural rulers

Da historical tragedy

Ea domestic comedy.

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Question 1135

jamb 1980

Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane

Awas responsible for his transfers

Bexacted obedience from his wife

Cfiiled his children with fear and pain

Dgave him a very good reputation

Emade his teacher rebel against him

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Question 1136

jamb 1980

Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because

Ahe was very hungry after his period of fasting

Bthe Yam won the agriculture contest

Cit belonged to the Royal House

Dit symbolized the acqusition of Power

Ehe wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola

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Question 1137

jamb 1980

In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if

Athe blacks forced out the whites

Bthe whites packed their bags and went away peacefully

Cthe whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks

Dblack and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin

Eunequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.

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Question 1138

jamb 1980

The doctors looked at chris johannes.
They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

Ait shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit

Bit lead to the arrest of the miners by the police

Cit shows the bad conditions of the mines

Dit ios the result of panic

Eit keeps xuma out of trouble.

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Question 1139

jamb 1980

Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?

Axuma

BLeah

CMa plank

DDladia

EJoseph.

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Question 1140

jamb 1980

Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of

AEuropean female sophistication

Bthe disaster of an African wishing to be European

Cmoral decadence in South African where women smoke

Dthe hardship of a black female teacher

Ethe loneliness of a female teacher in Malay Camp

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