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NECO Literature Questions 2021 Theory

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2021 Instruction: Answer one question (1) from each

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SECTUON I*

(1)

Yoko is one of the thirty seven wives of Chief Gbanya. She

is his favourite wife. The chief does whatever Yoko tells

him to do. This does not go well with Lamboi and Musa.

They look for ways to kill the Chief and take over the reign

of Mende Kingdom. Their opportunity comes when the

Chief is flogged mercilessly in their presence by the

Governor. He sustains injuries during the flogging. Lamboi

and Musa mix a poisonous concoction using alligator gall.

They give it to him. He drinks it. Before he dies, he hands

over his Chiefdom to Yoko after she persuades him. This

does not go well with Musa and Lamboi. They look for

ways of removing her from the throne. Meanwhile, Yoko

upon ascending the throne, sacrifices her womb as it is in

line with the tradition. During her reign, she is able to

conquer more territories and add them to her kingdom.

She also maintains a cordial relationship with the

Governor and act according to the dictates of the imperial

representative. In a plot to dethrone her, Musa and

Lamboi kidnap and kill Jeneba and lied to the people that

it is Madam Yoko that use her for ritual. This allegation

makes Queen Yoko to be subjected to humiliation and

disgrace from her subjects. She finally goes to the poro

bush and clears her name of the allegation. In a bid to

avoid further embarrassment and disgrace, she asks her

maid to prepare for her a poisonous concoction. She

drinks it and takes her own life. She says it is better than

facing further humiliation.

No 1

An Account of The Ascension Of Yoko to Chiefdom

Yoko is one of the thirty seven wives of Chief Gbanya.

She is his favourite wife. The chief does whatever Yoko

tells him to do. This does not go well with Lamboi and

Musa. They look for ways to kill the Chief and take over

the reign of Mende Kingdom. Their opportunity comes

when the Chief is flogged mercilessly in their presence by

the Governor. He sustains injuries during the flogging.

Lamboi and Musa mix a poisonous concoction using

alligator gall. They give it to him. He drinks it. Before he

dies, he hands over his Chiefdom to Yoko after she

persuades him. This does not go well with Musa and

Lamboi. They look for ways of removing her from the

throne. Meanwhile, Yoko upon ascending the throne,

sacrifices her womb as it is in line with the tradition.

During her reign, she is able to conquer more territories

and add them to her kingdom. She also maintains a

cordial relationship with the Governor and act according

to the dictates of the imperial representative. In a plot to

dethrone her, Musa and Lamboi kidnap and kill Jeneba

and lied to the people that it is Madam Yoko that use her

for ritual. This allegation makes Queen Yoko to be

subjected to humiliation and disgrace from her subjects.

She finally goes to the poro bush and clears her name of

the allegation. In a bid to avoid further embarrassment

and disgrace, she asks her maid to prepare for her a

poisonous concoction. She drinks it and takes her own

life. She says it is better than facing further humiliation.

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No 4

How The Cunning Acts Of Baroka Trap Sidi

Baroka plays the role of the traditional ruler of Ilujinle. He

is the Bale of Ilujinle. He is a very Cunning character. He is

regarded as the “Fox” because of the  load of Cunning

tricks.

 At first, he envies Sidi because she was more popular

than he is. She appears more prominent in the magazine

than he does. He then decides to marry her and add her

to his list of wives who were already thirty seven in

number.

  He uses Sadiku to woo Sidi. When Sidi refuses the

advances, he devices another means. He cunningly tells

Sadiku that he has lost his manhood. He does this

knowing fully well that Sadiku will not keep it a secret fr

Sidi. When Sidi hears the rumour, she believes it and lets

her guard down by seeing Baroka as nothing but a

harmless impotent man. When Baroka flatters her, she

willingly accept by walking into his trap. Next thing she she

knows, he sleeps with her and disvirgins her. To this end,

she is forced to marry him.

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(5)

*Discuss Osborne’s view of religion in the play?*

In the play, Jimmy sees organized traditional Anglican

religion as the antithesis of everything he believes in. The

modern world, he believes, is a world of moral

subjectivity. The church offers a worldview in which there

is clear right and wrong, salvation and damnation, and

this is a world that Jimmy simply believes no longer exists.

Jimmy’s relationship to religion is more complicated,

however, because he does allude to African American

evangelical religion as an example of pure emotion. It is

probable that Jimmy does not value the morality or

spirituality of African American religion as much as he

values the way in which such religious expression gives

voice to real and true emotion.

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(10)

i. THE DESTRUCTIVE NATURE OF UNCONTROLLED JOY:

The poet persona is obviously happy and joyous about his

retirement from service after thirty five years in service.

This explains why he organises a party to mark his

retirement. However, his joy gets the better of him and he

drinks to stupor, something he has been able to control

for over thirty-five years in government employment. His

over-joyousness lands him in his grave. Thus, in

everything we do, there is need for moderation. Had the

retiree been moderate while rejoicing and compliant to his

erstwhile driving code, he would have enjoyed his

retirement in peace. All his years he “pummeled his boozy

throat” in compliance with his duty rules just went to

waste.

ii. THE DANGER OF DRUNK DRIVING:

This is another significant theme in A Government Driver

on His Retirement. The poem expresses the universal

driving rule that drivers should not drive when drunk. It is

widely believed that driving when drunk makes the driver

(s) susceptible to auto-crash as in the case of our newly

retired government driver. Driving when drunk pushes him

to his early grave. His drunkenness “sent him home to rest

in peace”. The poem exposes us to the dangers of driving

when drunk and of course, that of careless driving.

iii. DEATH:

Towards the tail end of the poem, the theme of death

manifests. Death is an inevitable phenomenon every

human being must undergo. Every one of us will die

someday. However, the poet persona hurries his death

time as a result of his carelessness and unrestrained joy.

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NUMBER 2

How The Character of Musa Contributes to The

Development of The Play

Musa plays the character of the seer and the medicine

man in Mende land. He has the full trust of Chief Gbanya

who believes him to be a true messenger of the gods.

Musa has some dirty secrets. Lamboi is aware of these

secrets, so he uses it as an advantage to force the

support of Musa in his plan to dethrone Chief Gbanya

whom he feels is being manipulated by a woman in his

style of leadership and in the area of decision making.

The duo of Musa and Lamboi finally get their chance to

kill the king when he was flogged by the Governor for

sending an army against him. Musa prepares a poisonous

mixture using alligator gall and making the king believe

that it was a normal her prepared to treat his injuries. The

king innocently drinks it and dies.

Unlucky for Musa and his accomplice, the Chief hands

over the Chiefdom to his beloved wife, Yoko before he

dies. She then sacrifices her womb as it is the custom of

the land for the throne. Musa and Lamboi then kidnap

Jeneba, the daughter of Ndapi and Kill her. Musa then

deceived the people into believing that the Oracle

revealed to him that Yoko killed Jeneba and used her for

ritual. This angered the people so much that they subject

her to humiliation, disgrace and even dethroned her. As

the story unfolds, her name is cleared while the main

culprits are known. But the humiliation that Musa makes

her to face traumatized her to the extent that she drinks

poison and Kill herself in a bid to avoid further humiliation.

Miss’s caused the deaths deaths and misfortunes that

happened in the play.

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NUMBER 11

(Choose any 3)

i.

Rhyme and meter:

The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABA ABA ABA ABA

ABA ABAA. There are only two rhymes and there are two

refrains. The refrains, the first line and the third line, are

repeated four times in the poem: first line is repeated in

the last line of the second and forth tercet and the last-

to-second line of the sixth tercet, and the third line are

repeated in the third line of the third and fifth tercet and

the last line in the sixth tercet.

The use of repetition of the two refrains “Do not go gentle

into that good night” and “Rage, rage against the dying of

the light” is one effective device. The two refrains work

musical miracles in the poem and keep emphasizing and

deepening the theme of the poem [10]. The first and third

lines of the opening tercet alternate as a refrain in the four

following tercets and the last two lines of the concluding

quatrain. Such a demanding restriction requires poetic

ingenuity to maintain a meaningful expression. Here the

form provides the poet with a suitable framework for his

four characteristic types-wise, good, wild, and grave men-

and enables him to equate these types with his father’s

character. This repetition expresses one of the major

themes: one should not accept death without resistance.

ii.

Metaphor and Smile:

In the first line of the first tercet, the poet uses night as a

metaphor for death. Then “close of day” and “dying of the

light”, the synonymous phrases of night are repeated in

the next two lines of the first tercet. Night is the end of

one’s life and it represents death, while day is the lifespan

of one’s life and it represents life. In the second tercet,

the metaphor of night as death continues, but this time

the poet uses dark which is closely related to night as a

metaphor for death. In the third tercet, “the sun in flight”

is a part of the extended metaphor in which day is a circle

of life and the flying of sun represents the bright and

beautiful part of life. “The sun in flight” also represents life

is short and transient.

In the fifth tercet, the poet uses a simile in the second line

of this tercet: “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be

gay”. When those grave men are near death, though they

could not see clearly, they still try their best to see the

world. The poet compares blind eyes of grave men to

meteors rather than extinguishing candles. This

comparison is ill-matched, and the poet uses this ill-

matched comparison on purpose to represent grave men’s

attitude towards death: though they know they will die,

they still see with twinkle in their eyes and see as much

as they can before death.

iii.

Alliteration and Consonance:

Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant cluster

in stressed syllables.

In the first line “Do not go gentle into that good night”, the

alliteration here is used to call attention to the words go

and good which carry the alliteration, thus giving great

emphasis to these words. Night symbolizes death here.

Night has a negative connotation, and the poet adds an

adjective good to balance this kind of negative effect.

In the fifth tercet “Grave men, near death, who see with

blinding sight/ Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be

gay”, the repeated /b/ sound echoes in the sense or

meaning conveyed by the two lines. The connection

among these three words forms a contrast: though grave

men are losing their faculty of sight, they still use what

they have to rage against death. The employment of

alliteration here emphasizes the theme of the poem: do

not accept death tamely.

Consonance is the repetition of the final consonant cluster

in stressed syllables.

In the concluding quatrain “Curse, bless me now with your

fierce tears, I pray”, the repetition of /s/ sound

constituted consonance which effectively unites the key

words of this line and reinforces the mood of the speaker

to urge his father to fight against death.

iv.

Symbol:

In the poem “Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, the

poet employs many symbols.

“Good night” in the first line of the first tercet symbolizes

death or afterlife. At first readers may get puzzled when

they read the apostrophe line “Do not go gentle into that

good night”, readers are confused that who the addressee

is and why the speaker asks him to do that. The poet

reveals the addressee is “my father” in the last tercet. It

can be easily understood that the speaker’s father is dying

and he wants to urge his father to fight against death.

“Close of day” symbolizes end of life and “light” in the

“dying of light” symbolizes life, spirit or soul.

“The sad height” in the last tercet symbolizes the

closeness of death. After listing many different groups of

people on the verge of death who fight against death

rather than just accept their death obediently, the poet

finally mentions his father who is standing at the

metaphorical mountain which is the edge of the mortal

world.

v.

Imaginery:

The imagery occurs mostly in the poem “Do not Go Gentle

into That Good Night” is visual imagery.

In the second tercet, the speaker tells that “wise men at

their end know dark is right, /Because their words had

forked no lightening”. Forked lightening is a kind of

lightening that is in the line of light that divides into

several smaller lines near the bottom. In this stanza, the

speaker points out that wise men’s attitude towards

death: they know death is inevitable and they are wise

enough to continue to leave a mark in their life by “their

words” before they could influence this world. The words

of the wise men haven’t splitting the lightening reveals

their failure to make some influence on the world.

In the third tercet, “Good men, the last wave by, crying

how bright/Their frail deeds might have danced in a green

bay” also express their rage against death. The image

“last wave by” vividly describes the last wave is about to

crash the shore or die. The bay is green for it is brimmed

with life, plants, and seaweeds. Last wave can be

interpreted as this: the recent generation is like the wave

about to crash onto the shore. When these good men are

about to leave this world, they rage against death by

“crying” their deeds may have danced brightly.

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