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

Adeoti’s “Ambush” ends on a note of___________

A novel written in form of a letter is said to be_______

A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ……..

In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

… is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece

The mood of Diop’s ‘Vanity’ is__________

‘Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy’

The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

Which one of the following is most influential to the substance of Hallowell’s “The Dinning Table”?

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we’d gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother’s wife has been wife to other brother’s brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

There is a predominance of words associated with________

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we’d gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother’s wife has been wife to other brother’s brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

The run-on lines convey the speaker’s_______

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we’d gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother’s wife has been wife to other brother’s brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

‘The earth has stopped breathing and sighed’ illustrates__________

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we’d gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother’s wife has been wife to other brother’s brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

The mood of the poet is one of________

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we’d gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother’s wife has been wife to other brother’s brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

The theme of the poem is__________

Awonoor’s ‘The Anvil and the Hammer’ is best described as a/an___________

‘The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.’

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

In Herbert’s “The Pulley”, God’s supremacy is exemplified through______

‘They are as fearsome as they are fearless’ is an example of______

Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________

The setting of Shakespeare’s Othello is____________

The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________