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

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‘Me to the Orangery Solitude invites, a wagtail, to tell the tangled-wood-tale.
Christopher Okigbo: Heavensgae
The complexity of the poem can be ascribed to the poets use of

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‘Tonderal was assisted by the villagers in placing his trunck box into the back of the car and he got into the passenger side of the truck. Initially, he was a bit nervous and clearly uncomfortable. His young mind was asking how someone whom, he had almost caused a serious accident could be his benefactor.’
Daniel T.Manyika: Two World Apart
The narrative point of view used in the extract above can best be described as

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‘From the sky suspended the strings of tattered pants marched on trembling feet under stone heavy-kits marched, on their breast scared, monogram of skulls and bones’
Ossie Enekwe:Mass for the Dead
The subject matter of the extract above is

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‘The hoe is her barber’
The line above is an example of

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A reference beyond the immediate purview of what is being presented is known as

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Oh, the market is set like the hub of a wheel And it pulls like a magnet strong. It is easy to tell How it casts its spell And draws all the crowds along
The sound device used in the extract above is

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Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
The sound device used in the extract above is

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‘The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases……
Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
The poem above can best be described as

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‘My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust…
Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters
The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is

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Biokun: I did it for her!Let theme laugh!
Let them condemn me. I who have always derided superstition. I have gone back to the shrine of Olokun. At least if he dies, Oroki will know I tried everything.
Femi Osofisan: No More the Wasted Breed
Biokun’s mood in this passage is one of

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A group of three lyric stanzas in classical Greek poetry is referred to as

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A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

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The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as

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A structural arrangement of units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

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An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is

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A short and witty remark is

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The use of gestures to communicate in drama is known as

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A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is

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The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

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A poetic device in which an idea in a line runs into another is called

This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
In Cope’s Sonnet VII, poets are presented as