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

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

The tone of Cope’s Sonnet VII is generally

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

‘With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.’
In the excerpt above from Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

To sustain the interest of the readers,Lawrence in Bat uses

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Marvell, in To His Coy Mistress uses the imagery of death to

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

‘Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel’s Seat.exemplifies

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

‘Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel’s Seat.exemplifies

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Launko’s End of the War portrays the

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Kunene’s A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the

These question are based on George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty Four.

The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winton’s dreams of

These question are based on George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty Four.

Room 101 symbolizes a place of

These question are based on George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty Four.

The novel can be described as

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.
In Naked soles, Adeoti writes that the carnival of naked soles dances through

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Rubadiri’s An African Thunderstorm,
the thunderstorm begins with

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

The theme of the Acquah’s In the Navel of the Soul is

These question are based on George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty Four.
The novel draws a picture of

These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel Nwokocha Agbadi is famous for his oratorical power and

These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy of Motherhood.
For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for

These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal.

‘As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and
then deflating the skin under his chin’.
The subject of description in the line above is

These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal.

Vandermayer’s attitude and action towards Meka illustrates the church’s

These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono’s The Old Man and the Medal.
The heavy downpour on the night of Meka’s investiture symbolises.

These questions are based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

The plot of the play is