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

Read the poem and answer the question

We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.

The theme of the poem is

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question

He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The last paragraph illustrates

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question

He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

”……… screaming anger” is an example of

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question

He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The expression ”plastered on each of their face like a death mask” illustrates.

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question

He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The prevailing atmosphere is

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question

He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The attitude of the writer towards the President is one of

Read the following lines to answer this question

The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped
At the poor battered and weeping yacht.

The picture presented is one of

Read the following lines to answer this question

The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped
At the poor battered and weeping yacht.

The dominant device used in the lines is

Through …….. the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected

‘Many hands make light work’ illustrates the use of

An…… is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark

”That it will rain is not unlike” illustrates the use of

A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is

The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the

”The sun smiled gently on the scene” illustrates

Read the stanza and answer this question

For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
‘Your love is where she looks bereft’

The lines constitute

Read the stanza and answer this question

For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
‘Your love is where she looks bereft’

The lines are iambic

Read the stanza and answer this question

For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
‘Your love is where she looks bereft’

The rhyme scheme is

A short play is also called a

The ……. produces comic relief in drama

Poetry is written in