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

Another shoal of cars swam past.One in particular caught his eye,a long slender thing,elegant as a swallow,all gleaming blue and silver,a thousand guineas it would have cost,he tought.
In the first sentence,cars are described in terms of

The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes,the middle-middle class,the landless gentry.In their miserable poverty they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an ‘old’ family fallen on evil days…..This writer’s tone is

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

In ‘The Castle’ Muir writes:Our only enemy was gold’! This is true because

In T.S Elliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’ the old choirmaster could not be buried in the manner he wished because he unfortunately died

In ‘The Duel’ Thomas ends his narrative

In ‘I Will Pronounce Your Name’Senghor writes:’Naett that is the dry tornado,the clap of lightening’.
The figure of speech used in the above line is

The language of David Diop’s ‘Africa’ suggests

In on of the three jugs
The three jugs where on certain evenings return the tranquil souls,
the breaths of the ancestors,
the ancestors who were men,
the ancestors who were sages,
Mother has dipped three fingers
three fingers of her left hand:
thumb,forefinger and middle finger
i have dipped three fingers
three fingers of my right hand:
thumb,forefinger and middle finger.
(From “Viaticum”by B.Diop)
In this poem,the repetitive pattern suggests

Dinny,Lippy,Steepy and Fatty are characters in

In ‘Fulani Cattle’ J.P Clark expresses

Essentially,plays are meant

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy because