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

The tone used in the poem Owusu is that of

In the book, THE TRIAL OF BROTHER JERO by Wole Soyinka, Brother Jero himself identifies ONE of the following as his main weakness

Soyinka’s main concern in The Trials of Brother Jero is to

The hero of The Trials of Brother Jero is

Amope was introduced as a character into The Trials OF Brother Jero primarily to dramatize the

Most of the information in the Trial of Brother Jero is conveyed when Brother Jero speaks to himself in dramatic monologues otherwise known as a

There is a tide in the affairs of man
Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows, and miseries.
This is a statement made by

‘Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour’.

Brutus’ words in the above lines come

‘O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.
In our own proper entrails’.
These lines were spoken by

Marcus Antonius roused the public to mutiny in his funeral speech in Julius Ceasar partly because he succeeded in discrediting Brutus ans Cassius by calling them ‘honorable men’, when in fact he consciously organized his speech to prove that they were dishonorable. This device is known as

Kenneth Kaunda fought a much bigger boy from another school after a football match because he

The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.
In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

When Di says of Eliza, ‘That girl is tragedy already’ she means

As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul’s The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss’d cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimm’d their clammy cells.

The dominant images in the above passage are

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss’d cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimm’d their clammy cells.

The above passage derives its theme from

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples and moss’d cottage tress
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimm’d their clammy cells.

The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

Kaunda’s reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were

”London”

I wander thro” each charter”d street

Near where the charter”d Thames does flow,

And mark in every face i meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe

In every cry of every Man

In every infant”s cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forged manacles i hear.

How the chimney-sweeper”s cry

Every black”ning Church appalls;

And the hapless Soldier”s sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls.

But most thro” midnight streets i hear

How the youthful Harlot”s curse

Blasts the new born infant”s tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

The stanza form in ”London” is referred to as

‘Local colour’in a novel or play is feature which

In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as ‘tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women…’is