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

‘I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed,
And awake me, from my sweet dreams be lost,
By sucking blood from my poor head…’

Mbure: To a Bed-Bug.
The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is

He is a faithful liar

The line above is an example of

‘He says
The medicine gourds are filthy,
And the herb
Are drunk from unhygienic cups’

Okot p Bitek: Song of Lawino

The poet in the lines is saying that

No. no! Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.
The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe against others.’

O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.

The speaker in the passage is

This question is based on General 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 it but mocks reproof.’.

William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

This question is based on General 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

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

‘This thing you are doing is too heavy for you, he said.’ I went to school only a little, but I have killed many more years in this world than you have.’
G.Okara: The Voice.

It can be inferred from the passage above that the

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Weep not child, weep not my darling
With these kisses let me remove your tears
The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious
They shall no longer possess the sky….
The speaker of the lines is

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

Fights by the book of arithmetic
The figure of speech in the line above is

This question is based on General 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 line above suggest that women are

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

Satire employs the use of

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The opposite of the part that introduces the main work in literature is known as

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that teaches moral is said to be

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

An art that is both literary and theatrical is

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as

Hallowell’s The Dining Table can be referred to as a