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

The dominant literary device in Diop’s Vanity is

According to Peter’s The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is

‘And my blood ripples, turns torrent.’

The line above in Okara’s Piano and Drums depicts the persona as

One of the themes of Awoonor’s The Anvil and the Hammer is

‘But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep. Turns again home.’

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson’s crossing the Bar is

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

‘And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring’
The image in the lines above in Morris’
The Proud King is

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

‘awaiting in ambush’
ambush in the line above from Adeoti’s Ambush symbolises

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

The tone of the persona in Blake’s The School Boy is that of

This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.

The title of Herbert’s The Pulley is an example of

This question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son.

According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of

This question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son.

You want to know something then you run like a rabbit’

The device used in the line above is

This question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son.

The family that donates to charity is

This question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son.

One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a

This question is based on Bayo Adebowale’s Lonely Days.

Kufi is a

This question is based on Bayo Adebowale’s Lonely Days.

In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with

This question is based on Amma Darko’s Faceless.

Kabria’s second child is

This question is based on Amma Darko’s Faceless.
After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei’s family treats him like a

This question is based on Amma Darko’s Faceless.
‘Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn’t want to generate another war with a simple greeting’
The image depicted in the lines above is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Othello.

‘No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.’

This speaker of the lines above is

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Othello.
Othello kills himself with a

This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Othello.
The hypocritical character in the play is