Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 1:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

  Options:
  A) explains why the gods are not to blame
  B) narrates the life history of the hero
  C) reminds the principle character of thier functions
  D) explains to the audience the mimed action on the stage.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as Options:
  A) comic relief
  B) rhetoric
  C) anti-climax
  D) climax
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  In what type of play would the playwright introduce a comic to relieve tension already built up?

  Options:
  A) Farce
  B) Comedy
  C) Opera
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 5:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationAnd your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

  From the poem above, SHADOW means

  Options:
  A) bleak future
  B) period of suffering
  C) abstract ideas
  D) famine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6: "Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face" The excerpt above exemplifies _______? Options:
  A) Irony
  B) synedoche
  C) symbolism
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go.

  Whilst some of their sad friends do say '' The breath goes now', and some say ''No''

  The tone of this poem is generally

  Options:
  A) appreciative
  B) serious
  C) imaginative
  D) conversational
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

  In Angira'sExpelled,the poet persona laments the

  Options:
  A) Loss of his property
  B) Harrowing experiences from the stranger's visit
  C) presence of the strangers
  D) Problem of his family and their economic implications
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.

  In the wrong skin.

  Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.

  The passage above expresses the state of mind of

  Options:
  A) an alienated man
  B) an adventurer
  C) a renegade soldir
  D) a prisoner
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .