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

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, can be described as a

‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others.

In the content of Animal Farm, this statement means that equality

Since George Orwell was in fact writing about men while pretending to be writing about animals, his novel, Animal Farm can be classified as

In Animal Farm, the song
‘Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

was first sung by

‘Thou art the giver of
All that thy creatures love,
Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;
Every beast great or small
Sleeps at peace in his stall
Thou watchest over all…’

The poem (Animal Farm) refers to

In Animal Farm, the commandments originally drawn up by Snowball and Napoleon sought to declare

‘Clothes were like tattered flags
Flying off
To expose dangling breasts
As jaggered blinding flashes
Rumble, tremble, and crack
Amidst the smell of fired smoke
And the pelting march of the storm’

The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of

In the poem ‘Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

In the poem ‘Night Soyinka considers nightfall as

‘We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers’ footprints on the long shores.’
The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor’s ‘More messenger’ is

The speaker in ‘When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to

‘Nkosi Sikekela’ in Brutus’ ‘After Exile’, refers to a

What feeling dominates J.P Clark”s ”Song”?

‘Let me listen in the smoky hut where there comes a glimpse of the friendly spirits
My head on your bosom warm like a dang smoking from the fire’.

The dang in the verse from ‘Nuit de Sine’ refers to

Besides describing scenes of African village night, Senghor’s poem ‘Nuit de Sine’ makes a definiten statement about

In ‘Nuit de Sine,’the word ‘dark’ in ‘listern to our dark blood beat’ is used

The dominant mood in Senghor’s poem in Memoriam’ is one of

‘Vanished. Transported. Utterly transmuted.
i knew it. i knew i stood in the presence of God…
This statement of Ecstasy was made in The Trials Of Brother Jero by

The ‘curse’ the old master put on Brother Jero is that he would

Of the issues raised by Wole Soyinka in The Trials Of Brother Jero, the most central deals with the

Brother Jero’s attitude to his vocation is