Literature in English Past Questions

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'...Ha! That motoka is motoka
It belongs to the Minister of Fairness
Who yesterday was loaded with a doctorate
At Makerere with whisky...
Plus I hear the literate thighs of an undergraduate'
The above stanza from Theo Luzuku's 'The Motoka' demonstrates that the minister is

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries
If we weep gently....'
What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
The play ends on a note of

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
'Excuse me Bluntschll what did you say had spoiled your chances in life?
According to Bluntschll what had spoiled his chances in life was

This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
...What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?
What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say if they caught us here?''
These questions are addressed to

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
Lakunle:... To fetch and carry
To cook and scrub
To bring forth children by the gross
Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?
What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

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


And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... 

In these lines, the speaker expresses that 

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Hark, Hark!
Bow-Wow
The watch dogs bark!
Bow-Wow
Hark, Hark! I hear
The strain of the struting chanticleer
Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
Time out of mind
the going was easy
because of oil boom
we glutted and plotted,
as mad as a hatter'.
The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
'The child is father of the Man' is an example of

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began
So be it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
And I could wish my day to be
Bound each to each by natural piety'.
My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
The above poem essentially deals with the theme of

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
The mood of the quotation in this passage is

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
Violence by Festus Lyayi
The greater emphasis in this passage is on the