1991 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

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This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter'....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love withou…

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''Achebe's conclusion was that

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife. I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end i…

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This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of GodThe statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.In which of the following genres is the term 'soliloquy' generally used?

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This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter''...The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine...'''What is ironical about this statement ?

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This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter'If you can procreate without loving, merely to satisfy the pride of your declining mother, then I' find you despicable...'Whose words are these?

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This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter''A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about 'betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the he…

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This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand. You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoul…

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.A speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.'The dum, dum of the drum' is a good example of

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.A burlesque is

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.Blank verse

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.'His round cheeks, his round nose, his round chin were a cool, healthy red. In the globe of his face and neatly circular as if drawn in bright crayon…

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.In what type of play would the playwright introduce a comic to relieve tension already built up?

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.A motif is

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a

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This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.Assonance occurs when

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