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

A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.

Use the excerpt to answer this question

“they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives.”

The theme of this excerpt is____
 

This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

“To fly flags of joy” Two figures of speech used here are

‘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?
Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

The literary device used in the passage above is

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
“for the caged bird/sings of freedom.”,

The poetic device used in this expression is____

A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

The subject matter of a literary work is the

Lineation refers to

The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

” The hyena says the crown is made for him” in the above excerpt, the use of the word “crown ” is a good deployment of ____

This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

The indication that Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel” is culturally set is its use of_____

“She wanted to split herself. But she checked herself. ‘Get dressed,’ she said earnestly. ‘Get dressed and let’s go. You know I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this… ‘She slapped the bed, ‘then it won’t be here. It will be at the Samson and Delilah.'” –
Festus Iyayi; Violence

In the passage above, the speaker can be described as

‘My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.’
-Cynthia James; Drumology

The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

“She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill.” The literary device employed here is

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

A trilogy is the

‘… Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: ‘if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant…’ yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

The tone of the passage above is

“…Rage is Chief
Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
Enemy of equanimity”

The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is