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

Poetry deals with one of the following

The subject matter of ‘A Troubadour|Traverse’is

In ‘The Sea Eats Our Land’ the word ‘sea’ symbolizes

‘She came in silken Drapes’ is about the

The feeling in the poem ‘Nightfall in Soweto’ is one of

‘And ‘mid these dancing looks at once and ever it flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran’.
Line 3 is made memorable by the use of

‘She unpacked the novels she has brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale’.
This character may best be described as a woman

‘Earth has not anything to show more fair.
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning’.
It is suggested in this lines that

‘We are all diseas’d,
And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever
And we must bleed for it’.
The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

”When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still”.

The passage achieve realism through the use of

‘If i could have put u in my heart,
If but i could have wrapped you in myself
How glad i should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, here where we part….’
An appropriate title for these lines is…..

‘The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of

When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has ‘not slept on mount Parnassus’ he meant that

In Procession I-Hanging Day’, Soyinka writes about

In ‘Ode to a nightingale’ Keats celebrates the beauty of

‘Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May’s eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves’.
(‘Ode to a nightingale’)
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

‘I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have i seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, council, governments’
These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses’ life. This attitude may be described as

Stars hide your fires;
let no light see my black and deep desires
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see’
In these lines Shakespare uses

Kongi’s harvest is

Nani’s sternness and frequent use of the cane

Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because