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

Caesar’s ghost appears to Brutus

Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because

‘O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of

‘He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath’. This passage achieves vividness through the use of

‘A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places’.
This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

‘I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me,
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives’

For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

‘All was quiet in this park
Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced
The tyrant’s coming
Then did the branches talk in agony’.
There is in line 2 (‘like a gasping messenger…’) an example of

‘I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married’.

The quality which this passage displays is

‘Then suddenly her heart was whipped up, she now rode on strange waves: alone defying the wind and the rain; alone, fighting hunger and thirst in the desert; alone, struggling with strange demons in the forest, bringing glad tidings to her people’.

The mood of the lady in this passage is one of

The ‘Settings’ in a novel refers to

The expression ‘All the world is a stage’ is a good example of the figure of speech known as

The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called

‘Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal’s reality. Simi broke men, and friendship’.

It is obvious from this passage that Simi is

‘We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad to another death’.

Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?

Identify the odd item in the following list

A novel is

Dialogue is important in drama because it

A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is

In ‘In Memoriam’ Senghor writes ‘That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street…’
‘Dangerous safety’ used in this poem is an example of

The antagonist in a tragedy is

Point out the odd term