Literature in English JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

In The World is Too Much With Us’, Wordsworth wishes that people could

The dominant images in Kalu Uka’s Earth to Earth are those of

In As You Like It, the verse which begins

‘ Blow blow thou winter wind’ is about

Chaucer presents The Franklin as

In Gray’s ‘Elegy’ the poor are

All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter’s ; The Fence ‘are suggestive of the character’s

‘Comes this season of the cassia flower,
And pent passion peers through the bower,
Comes the season, and all labour is fallen
All earthen pitches as china broken’
The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka’s ‘Earth to Earth’ is

Poetry deals with one of the following

The subject matter of ‘A Troubadour|Traverse’is

In ‘The Sea Eats Our Land’ the word ‘sea’ symbolizes

‘She came in silken Drapes’ is about the

The feeling in the poem ‘Nightfall in Soweto’ is one of

‘And ‘mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran’.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

‘She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale’.
This character may best be described as a woman

‘Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning’.
It is suggested in this lines that

‘We are all diseas’d,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it’.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

”When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still”.

The passage achieve realism through the use of

‘If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part….’
An appropriate title for these lines is…..

‘The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has ‘not slept on mount Parnassus’ he meant that

In Procession I-Hanging Day’, Soyinka writes about