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 1011:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?

  Options:
  A) Rigours of formal courtship
  B) Being introduced to a wife
  C) Demands by in-laws
  D) Demands by the wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1012:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...Ha! That motoka is motoka

  It belongs to the Minister of Fairness

  Who yesterday was loaded with a doctorate

  At Makerere with whisky...

  Plus I hear the literate thighs of an undergraduate'

  The above stanza from Theo Luzuku's 'The Motoka' demonstrates that the minister is

  Options:
  A) corrupt and immoral
  B) a gifted doctoral graduate of Makerere
  C) an owner of a motor-car which is laden with whisky
  D) underserving of the literate thighs of an undergraduate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1013:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Assonance occurs when

  Options:
  A) a character speaks eloquently in a play
  B) similar vowel sounds are repeated in a sentence or line of poetry
  C) consonants are repeated at the beginning of words
  D) words rhyme alternately
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1014:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Point of view is a technique that is commonly associated with

  Options:
  A) the narrative structure
  B) characterization
  C) plot
  D) atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1015:

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

  In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of

  Options:
  A) shock
  B) disbelief
  C) acceptance
  D) grief
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1016:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-BugThe most dominant figure of speech in the excerpts above is

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1017:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,

  Toby and Maria is the expression of life's

  Options:
  A) fragility
  B) pleasure
  C) comedy
  D) romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1018:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofThe literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

  Options:
  A) alliteration and assonance
  B) simile and irony
  C) repetition and alliteration
  D) rhyme and rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1019:

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) condemn
  B) elaborate
  C) abuse
  D) praise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1020:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.A cursing rogue with a merry farce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crurch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) bbaa
  D) abba
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  The correct answer is B .