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

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi’s The New Man.

The mob in the novel is portrayed as

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi’s The New Man.

In the novel, Asejire refers to a

This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi’s The New Man.

Brigadier General Johnson’s plan to assassinate President Monye is revealed to

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Where has my love blow his horn?
The tune of his horn is well-known
Young men of my clan
Have you heard the horn of my love?
Okot P’Bitek: Horn of My Love
The overriding feeling of the persona in this extract is

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‘Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?
Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay
In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

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”She wanted to spit herself. But she checked herself. ‘Get dressed,’ she said earnestly. ‘Get dressed and let’s go You known I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this, …’she slapped the Samson and Deliah.”’
Festus lyayi: Violence
In the passage above, the speaker can described as

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‘‘They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..
Joseph Conrald: Nostromo
The passage above describes a troop of

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‘If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky
That coin will flutter But the eagle will never fly.’
Henry Dumas: America
The poem above achieves its literary effect through the use of

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‘My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle’.
Cynthia James: Drumology
The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

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The expression ‘The ripest is the saddest encounter’ is an example of

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‘And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses
The tone of the poem above is

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‘‘It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O’er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting’.
W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

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‘History’s stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father’s name?
Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter’s
The literary device used in the excerpt above is

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A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

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Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

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When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becauses

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The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

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A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

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A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

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Cast in a play refers to

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Aesthetics in literature has to do with the creation of