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

A hero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?

The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

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

One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy

That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

Pick out the odd item 

Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of 

You cannot know
 And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother

In this verse the poet uses

If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

In The Flight to Australia’, the following line occurs: ‘Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines’. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

Literature is studied as a subject at school  because

 A narrative poem must

One of the following writers is better known as  a playwright than as a novelist

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

The tone of Cope’s Sonnet VII is generally

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

‘With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.’
In the excerpt above from Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

To sustain the interest of the readers,Lawrence in Bat uses

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Marvell, in To His Coy Mistress uses the imagery of death to

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

‘Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel’s Seat.exemplifies

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

‘Woman cannot exist except by man
What is there in that to vex some of them so?
The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel’s Seat.exemplifies

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

Launko’s End of the War portrays the

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

In Kunene’s A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the