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

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I’m going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.

I’ve come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.

The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is

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I’m going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.

I’ve come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.

”Mad the rhythm runs” is an example of

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I’m going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.

I’ve come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.

The theme of the poem is best described as the

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.

The setting of the extract is

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.

The expression ”like fly that dared not alight” is a/an

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.

The diction conveys a feeling of

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.

”The air was actually burning gas” is a

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.

”…the cutter blade blurred into life”.
The above expression appeals to the sense of

A short witty saying is a/an

”But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” illustrates

In a play, unfolding events reach their peak in the

”The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

A question used for effect which does not require an answer is

In the line ‘season of mist and mellow fruitfulness’, the main appeal is to the sense of

‘The king has joined his ancestors’ is an example of

An epilogue

A very brief story is an

Bank verse has no

In poetry _ is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables

An omniscient narrator in a novel

One of the following makes use of gesture only: