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

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A literary work which imitates another in a distorted form is called

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet’s tone above can be described as

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.‘Today’s my last day here. I’m done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don’t know why they really hired me. They’re talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.‘My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.’William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of

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Sweet smile in time of snari gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.‘An unlucky creation His mother, a street walker;His lying father,A champion at producing bastards.’B.S.: Tibenderana; The BastardThe subject of the poem above is

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.Life, though a vanity Yet, not purpose full in drawling resignation Life’s spice is in striveFrom the extract above, the poet suggests that

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.‘She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.’Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.’The subject matter of the passage is

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.’The depicted is one of

This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.‘You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.’Festus lyayi:HeroesThe speaker here contends that

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A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as

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A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung is a

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Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are

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A line or a group of lines repeated in the course of a poem is called

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Oxymoron is the use of two contrasting words that are

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Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by

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A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

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An epic is a heroic story which includes

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An interlude is a brief

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.

In Cope’s Sonnet VII, poetry is