Literature In English 2011 Jamb Examination

These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god signifies

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on it,
There's something in me that reproves my fault,
But such a headstrong potent fault it is that
That is but mocks reproof.'

William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning
radiant in Chameleon's velvet
let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.'

Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

The excerpt above is an example of

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'Blood was to prove no solace to the king.
The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole
in which, alone with himself, he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'The wood decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapour weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.'

The subject matter of the lines above is

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

Theseus:
'Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draw on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon.
But, O, me thinks how slow.
The old moon wanes, she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man's revenue.'

William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The literary devices used in the excerpt above are

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world wordless wonder

You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream Code

The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'It was not yet closing time but most staff were trooping out of their offices.
The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,
breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one of the passengers.
He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and tumbled out of the lift.'

Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.

In the excerpt above, the subject's experience in the lift is

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing brows.
The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'

David Diop: The Vulture

The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

'Do not thank me, instead, let me ask you a question.
Now you have all come here sprawling, vomiting, rubbing tears on one another,
begging me to do my duty and help you.
But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?

Answer. Or is the land at peace?
Are not people ailing and dying'

Ola Rotimi: The God's Are Not to Blame

The subject matter of the excerpt above is