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 questions are based on General Literary Principles.Pun as a literary device deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arragement of words
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2: ''...her vesper done of all its wreathed pearls her hair she fees. Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees''.The passage gives ample evidence of the poet''s Options:
  A) sensuous description
  B) meticulous attension to matters concerning women
  C) mastery of the Spenserian stanza
  D) sensual feelings and emotions.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  A reference beyond the immediate purview of what is being presented is known as Options:
  A) allusion
  B) diversion
  C) inversion
  D) imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression? Options:
  A) Octet
  B) Lyric
  C) Sonnet
  D) Elegy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In literary work, setting refers to the

  Options:
  A) starting point of the story
  B) sum total of physical, social and historical circumstances
  C) orderly arrangement of episodes
  D) point at which the fortunes of the hero begin to decline
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 7: 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 8:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'Woman cannot exist except by man

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?

  The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) transferred epithet
  C) synechdoche
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .