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

The night is significant in ‘Nightfall in Soweto’ because

”Troubadour, I Traverse all my land exploring all her wide flung parts with zest probing in motion sweeter far than rest her secret thickets with an amorous hand”.

The above lines from Brutus ‘poem’ A Troubadour l Traverse’indicate that the poet

The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka’s poem ‘Earth To Earth

In these lines from Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
‘The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk’,
the poet uses

In ‘Salute to the Elephant’, the poet

The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night and charmed
A black power into the pounding waves…’
The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi
Brew’s ‘The Sea Eats Our Land’s is

As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was

‘For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire’s return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share’.
In these lines from Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a country churchyard’ the poet is referred to

Naipaul’s The Middle Passage is best described as

In the early days of the Durrell’s sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry’s most constant companion was

What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his

In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because

Zambia Shall Be Free is a

‘Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother’s bosoms’.

In this passage describing the end of the school day, children’s movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of

‘Now the bells are tolling
A year is dead.
And my heart is slowly beating
the Nunc Dimittis
to all my hopes and mute
yearnings of a year
and ghost hover round
dream beyond dream’.

For this poet, the passing year has

‘The celebration is now ended
but the echoes are all around
whirling like a harmattan
whirl-wind throwing dust around
and hands cover faces and feet grope’

There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

‘During this speech the elders who didn’t understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could speak for them, a man who knew the wisdom of the old white people, not like the small boys nowadays who cant even read a telegram’.
In these passage the elders are presented as

‘Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor, have only my dreams; l have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams’.
The poet of these lines

‘Such drizzling can go on for many days’, she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of

Which of the following statements best describes comedy

Drama is essentially different from poetry because