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

This question is based on Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun.

The stage direction at the end of the play reveals

This question is based on Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun.

The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be descried as

This question is based on Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun.

Titubi joins the farmers’ revolt

This question is based on Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun.

In the play, social change is achieved through

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

DUKE:…Thou know’st no less but all; I have unclasped To thee the book even of my secret soul.
What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

According to the play, the Duke of lllyria is fascinated by

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair The statement above characterizes.

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In drama, the term climax is used

This question is based on Literary Principles.
‘You amble on
we can no longer
wait for nature’s course
we must deliver
you
with
force’
Amelia House, ‘Our Sun Rises’
The mood in the lines above is one of

This question is based on Literary Principles.
‘There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing ‘Kayiwawa beturi, ”the theme song of his Burmese days.
Kofi Awoonor, ” This Earth, My Brother’
The character in the poem above is obviously a

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‘Ibadan,
running splash of rust
and gold – flung and scattered
among seven hills like broken
china in the sun.’
J.P Clark, ‘Ibadan’
The poem above is memorable for its

This question is based on Literary Principles.
‘He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman’.
Hemingway, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’
In the passage above, the sea is

This question is based on Literary Principles.
‘At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size’,
E. Pope, ‘Cask of Amontillado’
In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

This question is based on Literary Principles.
‘Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding beneath the shorts. There is a larg hole in the right sleeve of Malick’s sweater; the arm on the same side hangs down limply. One of the boys supporting him explained to me:
‘A motorcyclist knocked down Malick and Alioune.
We were playing football”’
Mariama Ba, ‘So Long a Letter’
The use of the present tense in the passage

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The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes’.
Alex La Guma, ‘Time of the Butcherbird’
From the italicized lines above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The theme of a literary work is the

This question is based on General Literary Principles.
The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

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The device used by writers to give truths by indirection is called

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A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as

This question is based on General Literary Principles
‘Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.
He bravely broached his boiling bloody best’.
The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is