Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.<br/>A savage custom, barbaric, out-dated Rejected, denounced, accursed Excommunicated, archaic, degrading Humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, Retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable what custom does Lakunle refer to in the above excerpt?

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.<br/>The time has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man Sadiku My manhood Ended near a week ago'.<br/>In the light of subsequent happenings, these word reveal that the speaker

This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.<br/>.....Aha! Here comes Sadiku<br/>Do you bring some balm<br/>To soothe the smart of my misused armpit<br/>Away, your enemy!'<br/>What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.<br/>Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.<br/>'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey, <br/>Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'<br/>The literary device used in this passage is