1999 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

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This question is based on General Literary Principles'Nightfall! Nightfall!You are my mortal enemy'. The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall i…

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This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E…

1999

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E…

1999

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E…

1999

This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E…

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This question is based on General Literary Principles'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

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This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesA foil in drama is also known as

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This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesA couplet refers to

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This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesA denouement in a play

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This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesThe line 'under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres' in Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' is a good example of

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.The theme of a literary work is the

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

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This question is based on General Literary Principles.The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called

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This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesA humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as

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This question is based on Literary Principles.'Ibadan,Running splash of rustAnd gold - flung and scatteredAmong seven hills like brokenChina in the sun.'J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'The poem above is memorable for its

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This question is based on Literary Principles.'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are alway…

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This question is based on Literary Principles.'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the grea…

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This question is based on Literary Principles.'Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding b…

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This question is based on Literary Principles.The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to t…

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