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

The role of the Storyteller in The Marriage of Anansewa is that of a

In ‘ Salute to the Elephant the line ‘The elephant’s head is his burden which he balances’ suggests that

Which of the following comes closest to a correct interpretation of the symbol of the mine dumps in Mine Boy?

In The Narrow Path Nani is transferred very frequently because he is

Girls dance and sing. Men clap .The walls sing and press inward. They press the men and girls, they press inward. They press the men and girls they press John towards a centre of physical ecstasy .

Tom whom does ‘they refer?

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
The simple news that Nature told
With tender majesty

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen
Judge tenderly of me’

To whom does ‘her’ in line 5 refer?

Which of the following is a major source of interest in As You Like It?

I have thee not yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling, as to sight’
‘fatal vision’ in the second line is a reference to

Kenneth Kaunda fought a much bigger boy from another school after a football match because he

The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.
In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

When Di says of Eliza, ‘That girl is tragedy already’ she means

As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul’s The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss’d cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimm’d their clammy cells.

The dominant images in the above passage are

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss’d cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimm’d their clammy cells.

The above passage derives its theme from

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss’d cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimm’d their clammy cells.

The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

Kaunda’s reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were

”London”

I wander thro” each charter”d street

Near where the charter”d Thames does flow,

And mark in every face i meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe

In every cry of every Man

In every infant”s cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forged manacles i hear.

How the chimney-sweeper”s cry

Every black”ning Church appalls;

And the hapless Soldier”s sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls.

But most thro” midnight streets i hear

How the youthful Harlot”s curse

Blasts the new born infant”s tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

The stanza form in ”London” is referred to as

‘Local colour’in a novel or play is feature which

In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as ‘tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women…’is

In Zambia Shall Be Free Kaunda’s ‘wandering day’s resulted from his

Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;

Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered

She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered

The poet suggests that science