1981 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

1981

'Tired teachers wipe The chalk dust On their faces The school dam bursts Ans floods of hungry children Melt into their mother's bosoms'.In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made…

1981

'Now the bells are tolling A year is dead.And my heart is slowly beating The Nunc Dimittis To all my hopes and mute Yearnings of a year And ghost hover round Dream beyond dream'.For this poet, the passing year has

1981

'The celebration is now endedBut the echoes are all around Whirling like a harmattanWhirl-wind throwing dust around And hands cover faces and feet grope'There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion ce…

1981

'During this speech the elders who didn't understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could…

1981

'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor…

1981

Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as

1981

In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was

1981

What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his

1981

In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because

1981

Zambia Shall Be Free is a

1981

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale''The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',…

1981

In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet

1981

The clouds were thickening in the red sky And night and charmed A black power into the pounding waves...'The figure of speech used in these lines from KwesiBrew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

1981

As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was

1981

'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'. In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a…

1981

In Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' Mtu Mweupe Karibu means

1981

The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes

1981

The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because

1981

''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Trave…

1981 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

'Tired teachers wipe The chalk dust On their faces The school dam bursts Ans floods of hungry children Melt into their mother's bosoms'.In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made…

'Now the bells are tolling A year is dead.And my heart is slowly beating The Nunc Dimittis To all my hopes and mute Yearnings of a year And ghost hover round Dream beyond dream'.For this poet, the passing year has

'The celebration is now endedBut the echoes are all around Whirling like a harmattanWhirl-wind throwing dust around And hands cover faces and feet grope'There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion ce…

'During this speech the elders who didn't understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could…

'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor…

Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as

In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was

What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his

In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because

Zambia Shall Be Free is a

In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale''The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',…

In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet

The clouds were thickening in the red sky And night and charmed A black power into the pounding waves...'The figure of speech used in these lines from KwesiBrew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was

'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'. In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a…

In Rubadiri's 'Stanley meets Mutesa' Mtu Mweupe Karibu means

The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes

The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because

''Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand''.The above lines from Brutus 'poem' A Troubadour l Trave…

The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth