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: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a Options:
  A) stanza in poetry
  B) meter in poetry
  C) trope in poetry
  D) verse in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2: Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune encourages people to Options:
  A) accept life as it is
  B) condemn soothsaying
  C) move in the direction of God
  D) accept soothsaying
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5: "And blossoms blown away"
  The line above from William Blake's poem " The school boy" is an example of Options:
  A) personification
  B) euphemism
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'Loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands out the woodland ride Wearing While for Easter tide

  A.E Housman Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Tree. In the excerpt above, the subject matter is

  Options:
  A) love of trees
  B) cherry bloom
  C) snow at easter
  D) woodland tide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Satirical writing employs Options:
  A) synechdoche
  B) irony
  C) onomatipoeia
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

  For old, unhappy, far off things

  And battles long ago.

  Or is it some more humble lay,

  Familiar matter of today?The lines above end in a literary device known as

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) conceit
  C) transfered epithet
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'I cannot blind myself

  To putrefying carcasses in the market place

  Pulling giant vultures

  From the sky.

  Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?

  The tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) anger
  C) mourning
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as Options:
  A) assistant to Sycorax
  B) leader of the spirits
  C) Prospero's daughter
  D) Alonso's wife
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  The correct answer is B .