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

‘His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds’. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of

‘In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted’. The last sentence is an example of

From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.
The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

‘Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk…’
In this passage, axe of intemperance means

‘Chini was breathing with a love ripeness in her eye. She was elegant, sophistication, and Nigerian costume with charm. her every movement stimulated a flow of poetry from Francois and an ebb of embarrassment from her. she called him “My mad French lover”.’
The tone of this passage is

The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth-
The sweeping up the heart
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense is starkest madness.
‘This the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,-you’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
This poem reflects the

” It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.’
The picture presented above is one of

Characterization in a novel means the

A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called

A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called

The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as

Which of the following terms is exclusive to drama?

Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem?

Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the

Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression

The epilogue in a play refers to the

When the speech is written so as to be understood in one way by a certain character, while the audience or another character understands it to have some secret and special meaning, the literary device used in this context is called

‘No; This my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green and red .’
In the above lines the figure of speech used is

Tunde’s long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.
The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called

The theme of Gabriel Okara’s ‘piano and Drums’ is usually summed up in the phrase