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

This question is based on BAT.

Use the excerpt to answer this question.
“Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
“The swallows are flying so late!”
Swallows?”

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

The combination of two or more metaphors is called

The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

“The sun used to smile in my hut”.

The line is an example of

This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

“I shall booze and zoom” contains a device called

Don’t panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset…try to regain your composure.

The speaker in the excerpt above is

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

“The free bird thinks of another
breeze / and the trade winds
soft through the sighing trees”

What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

“I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands”.The above lines is an example of a

CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
CYCLIST: All right. If you’re sure it won’t take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
when you’ve abandoned it for some time.
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

The literary devices in the dialogue above are

Careened’,
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched, I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.

The tone of the poet is

‘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

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