1993 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions

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This question is based on Literary Principles.'Otto's wife was a potter. Nessa remembered Sandra Davis telling her this. Not just a wife, not just a mother - as Nessa's own mother had been, as all the women in her childh…

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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.In the play, the Oba's poetic language reveals his

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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.'...Then, let her take another husband from among her own people. A woman without a man is like rich farm soil without the feel of roots.Beautiful woman without…

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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.OBASEKI [from the auditorium]. For the peace of the land, obey him - Benin has had enough trouble![Roupe11 turns, feigning departure.] CHIEF EZOMO [ urgently kne…

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man;And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...That keep the word of promise to…

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.'The Prince of Cumberland!- That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o' erleap,For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black an…

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.The play reaches a turning point when

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This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.'...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'But even he who sharp…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'...And your MP with a…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'... And the laughter…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'There where the need…

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This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.'...Nay, had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,Uproar the universal peace, confoundAll unity on earth .'The true intention of the speaker i…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'The voice of my educa…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.T.S. Eliot's 'Journey…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.The impression created…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'The cell is a cruel p…

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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.In' Sunset Sonata', th…

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This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'The dominant images in the novel are those of

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