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

The episode in which the priestess of Agbala takes Ezinma to the shrine at night is meant to demostrate how

‘A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo’s compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother’s hut and tears stood in his eyes.’
The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

‘When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo’s compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the “obi” He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur’
This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, can be described as a

‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others.

In the content of Animal Farm, this statement means that equality

Since George Orwell was in fact writing about men while pretending to be writing about animals, his novel, Animal Farm can be classified as

In Animal Farm, the song
‘Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

was first sung by

‘Thou art the giver of
All that thy creatures love,
Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;
Every beast great or small
Sleeps at peace in his stall
Thou watchest over all…’

The poem (Animal Farm) refers to

In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare

‘Clothes were like tattered flags
Flying off
To expose dangling breasts
As jaggered blinding flashes
Rumble, tremble, and crack
Amidst the smell of fired smoke
And the pelting march of the storm’

The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of

In the poem ‘Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

In the poem ‘Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

‘We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers’ footprints on the long shores.’
The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor’s ‘More messenger’ is

The speaker in ‘When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to

‘Nkosi Sikekela’ in Brutus’ ‘After Exile’, refers to a

What feeling dominates J.P Clark”s ”Song”?

‘Let me listen in the smoky hut where there comes a glimpse of the friendly spirits
My head on your bosom warm like a dang smoking from the fire’.

The dang in the verse from ‘Nuit de Sine’ refers to

Besides describing scenes of African village night, Senghor’s poem ‘Nuit de Sine’ makes a definiten statement about

In ‘Nuit de Sine,’the word ‘dark’ in ‘listern to our dark blood beat’ is used

The dominant mood in Senghor’s poem in Memoriam’ is one of

‘Vanished. Transported. Utterly transmuted.
i knew it. i knew i stood in the presence of God…
This statement of Ecstasy was made in The Trials Of Brother Jero by