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

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

James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father’s coffin that if….

The speaker is referring to

“Will college make you a better Olokun
priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors
better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-
hearted priest
of Olokun. Did I go to college?”

Grace Osifo: Dizzy

The literary device used in the passage above is

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

From the poem above, “No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps” means that

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The body perishes, the heart stays young.
The platter wears away with serving food.
No log retains its bark when old,
No lover is peaceful while the rival weeps.

The theme of the poem above is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

“Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus.”

J. Donne:The Sun Rising

From the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
My inborn stars to that
Final call to thee…

The literary device used in the first line is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?

The lines above end in a literary device known as

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?

The lines above shows that the persona

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

“Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?”

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The figure of speech involved in the lines above is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

“Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?”

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The excerpts above suggests

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

“Women as a clam, on the sea’s crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea’s
Fluorescence, dance on the pulse
incessant.

Wole Soyinka:Night
The lines above suggests that women are

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

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A mistake committed by the hero which leads to his downfall is known as

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that teaches moral is said to be

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

Action without speech in a play is

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

The figure of speech in which the writer means the exact opposite of what he intends to say is

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is