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

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.

In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.
The dominant literary device in the above statement is

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‘Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take – and sometimes tea.’
The literary device used in this passage is

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

Kwesi Brew’s ‘The Dry Season’ shows that

This question is based on Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel.

…..Aha! Here comes Sadiku
Do you bring some balm
To soothe the smart of my misused armpit
Away, your enemy!’
What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

This question is based on Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel.

The time has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man Sadiku My manhood Ended near a week ago’.

In the light of subsequent happenings, these word reveal that the speaker

This question is based on Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel.

A savage custom, barbaric, out-dated Rejected, denounced, accursed Excommunicated, archaic, degrading Humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, Retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable what custom does Lakunle refer to in the above excerpt?

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

Which of the following characters fight against vague idealism in life?

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‘We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take’,
‘The Mesh’ by Kwesi Brew
The poem ends on a note of

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‘He taught history classes in the room next to hers.
He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person…who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt’.
Meridian by Alice Walker
The person described in the passage is

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‘There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don’t know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob’
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The style of writing in the passage can be described as

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‘Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.’
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind’,….
‘Ode- Intimations of Immorality
by William Worthsworth
The above lines convey a sense of

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‘I have said too much unto a heart of stone
And laid mine honour too unchary out’
Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare
The above lamentation is an example of a

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‘The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God’s providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt’
Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)
The literary term used for this kind of writing is

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‘Hall to then, blithe spirit!
Bird thou wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!
‘To A Shylark’ by P.B. Shelley
The main figure of speech in the above passage is

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In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as

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‘The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea…’
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S.T.
Coleridge
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

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A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

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The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it

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A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

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Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

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In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called