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

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

According to Cope’s Sonnet VII, poetry is basically

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Elliot’s Journey of the Magi, the magi are aided on their journey by

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Lawrence’s Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

The poet persona in Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is willing to praise the ladies eyes for

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

The theme of the poem “Give Me The Minstrel’s Seat” centres on

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

The predominant device in Launko’s End of war is

These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.

In Kunene’s A heritage of liberation, the poet persona requests that the weapon of warfare be handed to their

The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs.
I have never known you
but your blood flows in my vein
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates
the field…
David Diop, ‘Africa’
In the lines above, Diop uses

The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to downfall of a major character in drama is

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in literature is

A trilogy is the

A panegyric poem is composed to

The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

I am informed the day recycles itself today
When I slept in the Lord in February .
I blame no one for an untimely death
I bless God for a noble departure- His words The Lord taketh the righteous away before evil days.’

The persona in the poem appear happy to have died

‘To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour’
– William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is

Monometer is a

A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called