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

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Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn’d,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape…..
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)

The passage creates an atmosphere of

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Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn’d,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape…..
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)

The setting of the extract is

Read the extract and answer the question 45-50

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn’d,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape…..
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)

The character who just spoke before the speaker is

Read the extract and answer the question 45-50

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn’d,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape…..
(Act l, Scene four, lines 39-43)

The speaker is

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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes….
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

The King had just requested that all the

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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes….
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

The other character present in the scene is

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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes….
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

The characters who come on the scene shortly afterwards are

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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes….
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

Speaker Y is

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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes….
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

Speaker x IS

The subject of discussion is

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As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown’d he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice….
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The passage conveys an atmosphere of

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As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown’d he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice….
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The speaker is addressing

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As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown’d he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice….
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The speaker is

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speakers A and B are

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

The speakers were

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

This thing refers to a

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speaker B is

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

The speaker is addressing

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speaker A is

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world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He’s always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being….

The diction of the extract conveys the speaker’s

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world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He’s always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being….

If all else perished and he remained illustrates