Literature in English

LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION 

There will be three papers- Paper 1, 2, and 3. paper 1 and 2 will a composite paper and will be taken in one sitting.

 Paper 1 will be a multiple choice objective test. It will contain fifty questions distributed as follows:

(a) Twenty questions on General Knowledge of Literature;

(b) Five questions on an unseen prose passage;

(c) Five questions on an unseen poem;

(d) Twenty context questions on the prescribed Shakespearean text.

Candidates will be required to answer all the questions within 1 hour for 50 marks.

Paper 2 will be an essay test with two sections, Sections A and B. Section A will be on African Prose and Section B on Non-African Prose.

Two essay questions will be set on each of the novels prescribed for study. Candidates shall be required to answer one question only from each section within 1 hour 15 minutes for 50 marks.

Paper 3 will be on the Drama and Poetry components of the syllabus. It will be put into four sections, Sections A, B. C and D as follows:

Section A: African Drama Section

B: Non-African Drama Section

C: African Poetry Section

D: Non-African Poetry

There shall be two questions on each of the prescribed drama texts for Sections A and B. There shall also be two questions for each of the poetry sections ie Sections C and D. Candidates shall be required to answer one question from each of the sections, making a total of four questions. The paper will take 2 hours 30 minutes to complete and will carry 100 marks.

Note:

(i) The Unseen Prose passage for Paper 1 shall be about 120 – 150 words long.

(ii) Only context questions shall be set on the Shakespearean text. The context questions will test such items as theme, characterization, style and setting in the Shakespearean text

(iii) No essay question shall be set on the Shakespearean text

 

A LIST OF SELECTED AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICAN PLAYS, NOVELS, AND POEMS

Shakespearean Drama:

William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra

Drama:

African:
i. Efua Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa 

ii. Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan's Once Upon an Elephant

Non-African:
i. J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls

ii. Robert Bolt's A Man for all Seasons

Prose:

African:
i. Pede Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die

ii. Elma Shaw’s Redemption Road

Non-African:
i. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

ii. Susanne Bellefeuille's Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

Poetry:

African:
i. Gabriel Okara's "Once Upon a Time"

ii. Elizabeth Kamara's "New Tongue"

iii. Wole Soyinka's "Night"

iv. Niyi Osundare's "Not My Business"

v. S.O.H. Afriyie-Vidza's "Hearty Garlands"

vi. Syl Cheney Coker's "The Breasts of the Sea"

Non-African:
i. Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

ii. Wilfred Wilson Gipson's "The Stone"

iii. Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

iv. Seamus Heaney's "The Digging"

v. Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise"

vi. Fleur Adcock's "The Telephone Call"