Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.
The real victims are

This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.
The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


'But what wakeful of man,
Made of the mud of this earth,
Can stare at the touch of sleep
The stable vehicle of dream
Which indeed is the look of your eyes?'
These lines from J.P. Clark's 'Olokun' suggests that Olokun eyes

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


The choice of imagery in J.P Clark's 'Olukun' suggests that the poem intended to arouse

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In David Diop''s ''The Vultures'', the colonialist are portrayed as

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.


In Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home', the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil
From lamps'.

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

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THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

Well it wasn't there anymore with him?
Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?
The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S
THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

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THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME

''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.
Odewale says this because

THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

The following epithets:
'The courageous captain of compliments...
The very butcher of a silk button...
a gentleman of the very first house...'
refer to

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'You talk here in the public haunt of men.
Either withdraw unto some private place,
Or reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.
This appeal is made by

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'See what a scourage is laid upon your hate
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen...'
The speaker of these lines is

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In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to