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

‘Serrating down your back and front
Like beak of the sword-fish,
And both your ears, notched
As a bondsman to this house…’

The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark’s ‘Abiku’ is

In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare portrays the roman plebeians as

‘Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
And, we like friends, will straightway go together’.

This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

Brutus: This is sleepy tune. O murd’rous slumber!
Layest thou the leaden mace upon my boy,
That plays the music? Gentle knave, good night.
‘Gentle knave’ refers to

‘And for Mark Antony, think not of him;
For he can do no more of caesar’s arm
When caesar’s head is off’.
This means that Mark Antony

Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia’s appeal?

The narrator in Mission to Kala is

In Mission to Kala When Medza encounters Edima,
what strikes him about her is her

‘It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.
In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to

As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because

A ‘gentleman’ in the sense in which it is used in Great Expectations is

The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show

Miss Havisham grooms Estella the way she does so as to make Estella

The major lesson Pip’s experience in Great Expectations teaches us is that

In which of the following London neighborhoods mentioned in Great Expectations is Mr. Jagger’s office located?

‘He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.’
The character described in the passage is the father of

Odewale: I thought you were leaving with your son Aderopo.
Ojuola: It is you i married your highness, not my son.
The exchange from The Gods are not to Blame is an example of

‘Just because i am an Ijebu man, and do not belong to your tribe, the sight of me as your king gnaws at your liver, and rips your heart asunder…’
The speaker’s statement is prompted by

‘Is Aderopo jealous that i am sharing a bed with his mother? Very well then, let him come and sleep with his mother’.
Odewale’s statement is a good example of

Because of his fiery temper as a youth, Odewale was called the

‘The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.’The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ‘ Stanley meets Mutesa’ and they suggest that