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

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside…. 

In these lines, the speaker expresses that 

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
Hark, Hark!
Bow-Wow
The watch dogs bark!
Bow-Wow
Hark, Hark! I hear
The strain of the struting chanticleer
Cry, ‘cock-a-doole-doo!
In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of

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Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly….I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor…I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is

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Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter’.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety’.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
‘The child is father of the Man’ is an example of

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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety’.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
The above poem essentially deals with the theme of

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‘Created half to rise, and half to fal;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world’.
These lines from Alexander Pope’s ‘Essay on
Man’ show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of

This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.’In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch’. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are

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‘Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:” Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?”
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
The mood of the quotation in this passage is

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‘But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn’t know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn’t the means to pay back’
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the

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‘I find no peace, and all my war is done;
Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have and all the world in season’.
The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is

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In poetry, ‘run-on-line’ can be found

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Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

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In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four

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An autobiography becomes a literary work when

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A dirge is a

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‘Genres of literature aptly describes

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An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author’s style and ideas is know as

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A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is

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The persons who take part in a play are sometimes referred to as

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A play is called a comedy when