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Question 41

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
Be him English
Be him African
Be him Nigerian
The lines above are an example of

Aepitaph

Banaphora

Ctautology

Depigram

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Question 42

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'I am alone
And the murmur of my lips
Carry song and tears homewards
From a plain away from home
Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola
The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

Aelation

Banger

Cnostaglgia

Dsorrow

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Question 43

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names
What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

Ashe runs away

Bshe is awake

Cshe falls asleep

Dshe is dead

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Question 44

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.
He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.
He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.
Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full
The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

Aridicule

Bpraise

Chatred

Dadmiration

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Question 45

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'
Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence
The dominant technique in the lines above is

Airony

Brhyme

Calliteration

Dmetaphor

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Question 46

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to
England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.
The subject matter of the passage above is the

Auncritical acceptance of European values

Bwoes of English marriage

Cadventures in England

Dintransigence of an African wife

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Question 47

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.
My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.
My poor brother in immaculate evening dress
Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.
Diop: The Renegade
The poet's attitude here is

Aparadoxical

Benvious

Cironical

Dsarcastic

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Question 48

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'
Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

Amythical

Bbiblical

Chistorical

Dclassical

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Question 49

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'
Gabriel Okara: The Voice
it can be inferred from the passage above that the

Alistener is a porter

Blistener is wise

Cspeaker is a murderer

Dspeaker is more experienced

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Question 50

jamb 2004

This question is based on Literary Appreciation
'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'
Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles
The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

Ainnuendo

Bassonance

Coxymoron

Dlimerick

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Question 51

jamb 2004

In John Donne's Death, be not Proud, the poet believes that death is

Aimmortal

Bmighty

Cpleasurable

Ddreaful

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Question 52

jamb 2004

Mohan Singh's A Village girl centers on

Athe description of a village girl

Bbeauty and its appreciation

Cman in nature

Dthe elegance of a girl

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Question 53

jamb 2004

The allusion to Eurydice's experience in Robert Frost's Wild Grapes in an imagery of death and

Areincarnation

Bresurrection

Crebirth

Dgrowth

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Question 54

jamb 2004

'Love and loveless hate' and 'Love lusterless word' in Lenrie Peters 'She Came in Silken Drapes ] suggest that

Alove is a meaningless word

Bjoy and sadness often mingle

Clove is forever sweet

Dlove breeds hate

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Question 55

jamb 2004

Arthur Nortje's Nightfall is written against the backdrop of

Aapartheid

Brevolution

Ccelebration

Dviolence

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Question 56

jamb 2004

Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

Afertilization of the earth by moisture

Bloss of man's property

Cseasonal flow of nature

Dhappy beginning and sad end of life

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Question 57

jamb 2004

David Diop's Loser of Everything can be seen as

Aa lamentation of the destruction of African values

Bthe suppression of an African village

Ca celebration of African values

Dan account of warfare between an African community and an invading force

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Question 58

jamb 2004

The persona in Kassam's Maji Maji represents the

Awarriors

BGermans

CMzee

Dlisteners

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Question 59

jamb 2004

...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies

Ameaningless foreign religious parctices

Bmeaningless indigenous religious practices

Cthe architectural beaty of the cathedral

Dthe Catholic Church parctices

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Question 60

jamb 2004

In Acholonu's The Dissidents, the daughter of my father' is a

Aheroine

Bvillain

Ccharacter

Dnarrator

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