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

FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?
Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

‘But Obatal,
God Creation,
has a way
of consoling the distressed.
The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

‘The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep… sleep..sleep…’
These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

‘No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them … attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me… I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory…’
The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by

‘His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds’. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of

‘In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted’. The last sentence is an example of

From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.
The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

‘Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk…’
In this passage, axe of intemperance means

‘Chini was breathing with a love ripeness in her eye. She was elegant, sophistication, and Nigerian costume with charm. her every movement stimulated a flow of poetry from Francois and an ebb of embarrassment from her. she called him “My mad French lover”.’
The tone of this passage is

The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth-
The sweeping up the heart
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense is starkest madness.
‘This the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,-you’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
This poem reflects the

” It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.’
The picture presented above is one of

Characterization in a novel means the

A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called

A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called

The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as

Which of the following terms is exclusive to drama?

Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem?

Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the

Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression