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

A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

Be him English

Be him African

Be him Nigerian

The lines above are an example of

The sides of a stage are called

This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

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“And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly”

The dominant device in this excerpt is ___
 

A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

‘And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to work
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.‘

In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning’

The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

A panegyric poem is composed to

Cast in a play refers to

‘As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breadth goes now, and some say, “No”.’
John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The tone of this poem is generally

The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer’s mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

This question is based on BAT.

Read the excerpt and answer the question:
“Bat!
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down.”

The theme of this excerpt is____

The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ……

A limerick has