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

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

In the play, Mercutio can be described as

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

The news of Juliet’s death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by

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

The play reaches reaches the point of denouement

These questions are based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
‘Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I’ll call them back again to comfort me.
Nurse!-What should she do here?
My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial’.
The intention of the speaker above is to

‘Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermine my will to create pictures of lasting appeal…’
The speaker in the quotation above is

These question are based on J.C De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.

The final harassment of Maanan takes place in

These question are based on J.C De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.

The prevailing theme of the play is

These question are based on J.C De Graft’s Sons and Daughters.
From it’s resolution of conflicts, the play can be described as a

These question is base on Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy of Motherhood.

In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god signifies

These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

The wood decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapour weep their burden to the ground,
Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
The subject matter of the line above is

These questions are based on literary Appreciation.
”Blood was to prove no solace to the king.
The rejection he had suffered at Idama’s hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,
alone with himself, he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.’
Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.
The narrator’s attitude to the king is one of

These question are based on literary Appreciation.

‘Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon’s velvet let today’s dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.
Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.
The excerpt above is an example of

These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary on it’, There’s something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is That is but mocks reproof.’
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

I am not afraid of anything he told them.
I have done almost everything in this world.
I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most of them.
I have been in prison for more hours than I have been out of it within the last five years.
In recounting his criminal life, the speaker’s tone is

These questions are based on literary Appreciation.

”Do not thank me, instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling, vomiting, rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you.
But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?
Answer. Or is the land at peace?
Are not people ailing and dying
Ola Rotimi: The Gods Are Not To Blame
 In the excerpt above, the land is not at peace because of _____

These question are based on literary Appreciation.

‘In those days
When civilization kicked us in the face
When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.’
David Diop: The vulture
The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

These question are based on literary Appreciation.

‘It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.’
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.
In the excerpt above,the subject’s experience in the lift is

These question are based on literary Appreciation.

‘You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder
You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder’
Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code
The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

These question are based on literary Appreciation.
Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour
Draw on space for happy day bring in another moon.
But, O, me thinks how slow.
The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-drama or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man’s revenue.
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The literary device used in the excerpt above are

These questions are based on general Literary principles

The metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllable is

These questions are based on general Literary principles

The plot of a story generally refers to the