Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.
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'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?
Wole Soyinka: King Baabu
From the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.
The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
But the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.
The subject matter of the extract above IS.

These questions are based on Literary Appreciation
And your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.
from the poem above, SHADOW means