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

‘We are all diseas’d,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it’.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

”When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still”.

The passage achieve realism through the use of

‘If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part….’
An appropriate title for these lines is…..

‘The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has ‘not slept on mount Parnassus’ he meant that

In Procession I-Hanging Day’, Soyinka writes about

In ‘Ode to a nightingale’ Keats celebrates the beauty of

‘Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May’s eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves’.
(‘Ode to a nightingale’)
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

‘I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments’
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses’ life. This attitude may be described as

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see’
In these lines Shakespare uses

Kongi’s harvest is

Nani’s sternness and frequent use of the cane

Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because

In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if

The doctors looked at chris johannes.
They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!’a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

Which of the characters in Abraham’s Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife?

Eliza is Mine Boy is representative of

‘Thou losest labour
As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed’
Macbeth contempt from Macduff’s effort in this battle scene arises from

To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically ‘attended’by

The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was

In As You Like It Orland’s defeat of charles, the Duke’s wrestler made his brother Oliver