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

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and the question

A modest two-room hut built of mud and roofed with straw graciously sheltered the Mensahs. One of the rooms advertised itself as a living room. The kind earthenware pot willingly kept company with four ever-smilling stools. The pot eternally contained cool water for guests. The second room was a warm-hearted bedroom without a bed. The poor pair had to sleep on bare straw mats on the polished dirt floor Some overwashed rags deputised for blankets and sheets and pillows. Two strong dry logs, facing each other like bitter rivals burned themselve out at night, not merly to keep the couple warm but mainly to ward off hungry mosquitoes and other hostile pests.
There was no door to ward off the cold night air. Some rude devices, however, were contrived to keep the room quite safe from prying eyes and curious domestic animals. Would any thief be ever tempted to peep into such a rude room of such a poor pair?

The write’s attitude to the couple is one of

………..is a literary device used to express unpleasant in a more acceptable manner

‘Let me not love thee if I love thee not’ illustrates

In drama, the …………. creates humour

A dirge is a poem sung

Use the line to answer the questions.
‘Our leaders will not compromise freedom
Nor will our heads give up liberty.’

A character that develops in the course of a novel or play is described as

‘heads’ in the second line is an example of

Use the line to answer the questions.
‘Our leaders will not compromise freedom
Nor will our heads give up liberty.’

The lines illustrate

The use of imagery in prose or verse

A story in which characters or actions represent abstract ideas or moral qualities is

The first four lines of the Shakespearian sonnet rhyme

A ballad is essentially a ……….. poem

……….. Is the location of the action of the plot

A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable is

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep’st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke

The rhyme scheme of the stanza is

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep’st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke

Pan is used here as

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep’st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke

The stanza is an example of

The performers in a play constitute the

The pattern of a poem without reference to its content is referred to as the

In literature, repetition is used essentially for

A speech in a play in which a character speaks his or her thoughts alone is