This post contains some useful quiz questions and answers on The Grieved Lands of Africa by Agostinho Neto. Find multiple-choice objective test questions that will help you to become adept at answering some of the most difficult questions based on The Grieved Lands of Africa. You can read the full text of this poem here […]
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If you are looking for poetry analysis notes to help you prepare yourself or your students for the upcoming WAEC SHS Literature test you are in the right place. In this post, you will find a carefully selected group of WAEC/WASSCE Literature study notes in the poetry section. They should enable you to get fully
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Poetry is a form of literary expression that uses language and literary devices to evoke emotions, convey ideas, and create aesthetic experiences in the audience. Popular features of poetry are diction and imagery, figurative expression, condensed use of language, deliberate use of words and expressions, rhyme, rhythm and sound devices. In this post, I will
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Below is the full list of all 10 WASSCE/SHS Core Literature poems for 2022-2026. While the first five poems above fall under the African Poetry Section in the WAEC Core English Language syllabus, the last five constitute the Non-African Poetry segment of the same SHS English syllabus. Remember that these Core Literature poems for WASSCE
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This tutorial will take you through a thorough analysis of “Black Woman”. “Black Woman” is a poem composed by Leopold Sedar Senghor. Leopold Senghor was a Senegalese poet, academic and politician. In fact, he was also the first president of independent Senegal. At Cegast Academy, you can learn more about the contribution of Leopold Senghor
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I’ve named this tutorial “A Government Driver on His Retirement Analysis” instead of my preferred “A Government Driver on His Retirement Analyzed: Subject Matter, Themes and Poetic Devices”. The only reason for this is to shorten it a bit. As you can see, the title of this particular poem is quite long. So that is
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This quiz on The Song of the Women of My Land is meant for teachers and students of African Poetry. I’m referring to anyone whose dream it is to obtain an excellent grade in the WAEC/JAMB/NECO Literature paper. Do not forget to share so your colleagues might benefit. SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF THE SONG OF
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Are you a teacher or student of Literature-in-English looking for a quiz on Raider of the Treasure Trove? Then you will be happy to have made it here. I will give you key objective test questions followed by answers to Lade Wosornu’s poem, Raider of the Treasure Trove. These questions will open your mind to
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This is your complete analysis of “The Grieved Lands” a poem by Agostinho Neto. You will find this tutorial a helpful study guide especially if you are preparing for a Literature test in WASSCE, NECO, JAMB or GCE. You will also find, on this Cegast Academy blog, the PDF version of The Grieved Lands together
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This post is going to give you the full text of Kofi Awoonor’s poem, The Sea Eats the Land at Home. Make sure to also read my analysis of the poem. Remember that this is one of the prescribed poems for the 2021 to 2022 Cambridge IGCSE Literature-in English test. The full meaning of IGCSE
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You can now view and study all your WASSCE Literature African poems for 2021 to 2025 at one place. Do you want a PDF copy of the prescribed African poems for WASSCE 2021 to 2025? Then you’ve arrived at the right place. Simply click on the download pdf button to begin your download. 1. The
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In this WASSCE Literature-in-English tutorial,you will find a complete summary and analysis of Raider of the Treasure Trove by the Ghanaian poet, Lade Wosornu. Trust me to lead you to the subject matter and the meaning of Raider of the Treasure Trove. We shall also do a detailed analysis of Raider of the Treasure Trove,
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You can now have a complete analysis of The Song of the Women of My Land by Oumar Farouk Sesay, the prolific Sierra Leonean poet, playwright and novelist. Aspects of the poem I will cover in this detailed analysis are the subject matter, themes and poetic devices. Today you will have a summary of the
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This post will give you a detailed analysis of The Leader and the Led in a way that you’ve never seen before. Additionally, I promise you a summary of the subject matter of Niyi Osundare’s poem, “The Leader and the Led”. It is all about the meaning of The Leader and the Led. “The Leader
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Here is the full text of the poem The Panic of Growing Older by the Gambian poet, Lenrie Peters. You can also read the complete analysis of the poem, The Panic of Growing Older. LENRIE PETERS: THE PANIC OF GROWING OLDER Stanza One The panic of growing older spreads fluttering winds from year to year
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So you want Birago Diop’s poem Vanity analyzed for your easy understanding, right? Then you have done well to visit this site. Because you will not be disappointed. This tutorial is all about a detailed analysis of Vanity, a poem by the Senegalese poet, Birago Diop. Please click here to view the full text of
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The comprehensive analysis of Piano and Drums you’ve been looking for is exactly what you will have here. Piano and Drums Analyzed: Subject Matter, Themes and Poetic Devices The study guide you are about to read in this Literature tutorial is about the analysis of Piano and Drums. This analysis will help you to better
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Gbemisola Adeoti: Ambush The land is a giant whalethat swallows the sinker,with hook, line and baitaborting dreams of a good catchfishers turn home at duskblue Peter on empty shipsall Peters with petered out desires Analysis of Ambush The land is a saber-toothed tigerthat cries deep in the gladeWhile infants shudder homethe grizzled ones snatch their
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Gabriel Okara: Piano and Drums When at break of day at a riverside I hear jungle drums telegraphing the mystic rhythm, urgent, raw like bleeding flesh, speaking of primal youth and the beginning I see the panther ready to pounce, the leopard snarling about to leap and the hunters crouch with spears poised; And my
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Kofi Awoonor: The Anvil and the Hammer Caught between the anvil and the hammer in the forging house of a new life Transforming the pangs that delivered me Into the joy of new songs The trappings of the past, tender and tenuous Woven with fibre and sisal and Washed in the blood of the goat
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