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

‘The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.’

In describing the action of the climber, the writer has used the literary device of

‘Political languages is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure minds.’

The writer here suggesting that political language is

‘There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore:
Turn wheresoever i may,
By night or day
The things which have seen i now can see no more.’
The mood captured in this passage is one of

‘It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours…’
The description of the town in this passage suggests

‘Contrition twines me like a snake
Each time i come upon the wake
Of your clan,…’
In this passage ‘contrition’ is

Which of the following novels was written by a Nigerian?

Which of the following was not written by Wole Soyinka?

To be complete, a play MUST have

‘Assonance’ is the product of a poet’s use of

A well known epic in English literature is

What we call ‘tragic flaw’ is the

The protagonist of a story is generally

The plot of story generally refers to the

A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an

Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as

A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as

We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.
In the above sentence taken from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

‘…A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.’
In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates

The episode in which the priestess of Agbala takes Ezinma to the shrine at night is meant to demostrate how

‘A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo’s compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother’s hut and tears stood in his eyes.’
The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

‘When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo’s compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the “obi” He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur’
This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are