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

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is an example of

‘…. The youthful hue sits on thy skin like a morning dew…’

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The old man slept in his favorite chair
The wind ran its fingers through his hair
He looked like a tree gone dry of sap
And his hands were dry upon his lap
The rhyme scheme of the poet above is

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The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of
dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream
as it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.
The underline expression in line 3 is

The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as

This question is based on General literacy principles

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is

Ballad is meant to be

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

O! Ceremony, show me but thy worth what is thy soul of adoration.
The figure of speech in the lines above is

In literary devices, pun deals with

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The literacy devices used in the lines ‘Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass’ are________from Mohan Singh’s ‘A Village Girl’

The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is

Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to

Sweet smile in time of snarl
gives pride in spite of sneer
sing, rid this world of despair
and save, a snared heart from
cascading stream of strife
The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

Travelogue is a work of art written

Plays are basically meant to be

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
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 it but mocks reproof.’
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

This question is based on General literacy principles

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbol is known as

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‘But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.
She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains
heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost’.

The subject matter of the passage is

This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.
The excerpt below from Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is an example of

The figure of speech in the line below from Acquah’s In the Navel of the Soul is ‘We would be believing we dreamt it’

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through
‘……..They do not see the funeral piles
At home eating up the forests…….’
_ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

A cursing rogue with a merry farce,
A bundle of rags upon a crurch,
Stumbled upon that windy place
Called cruachan, and it was as much.
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

A significant of a whole through its significant part is