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 1031:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."What eyes will watch our large mouths

  Shaped by the laughter of big children

  What eyes will watch our large mouths?" Birage Diop:VanityThe tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) sarcasm
  B) sacrilege
  C) chiasmus
  D) eulogy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1032:

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

  '...Tide and market come and go

  And so shall your mother.'

  The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside

  Exchange' depict the

  Options:
  A) variation of season
  B) changing periods of marketing
  C) constancy of nature
  D) importance of living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1033: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is Options:
  A) an irony
  B) a fable
  C) a masque
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1034:

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

  In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation. This is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic monologue
  B) dramatic irony
  C) comic relief
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1035:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) euphemism
  C) dramatic irony
  D) textual contrast
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1036:

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

  The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

  Options:
  A) one of the totems of Idoto
  B) the only totem of Idoto
  C) the abundance of oilbean trees by the river
  D) the use of the oilbean for magical purposes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1037:

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

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1038:

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

  The play is concerned principally with

  Options:
  A) presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
  B) changing the traditional view about comedy in England
  C) the construction and handling of situations and incidents
  D) the presentation of a society without morals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1039:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  Nwaka's hostility to Ezeulu is attributable to

  Options:
  A) his great wealth and sense of importance
  B) the rivalry between Umuneora and Umuachala
  C) the instigation of Ezidemili
  D) his jealousy of Ezeulu's mysterious powers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1040:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  '...let the greying day grow

  ....let the evening horns blow

  ....let the melting mountains go

  ....but let the sundown sow''

  To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai

  The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

  Options:
  A) metaphorical
  B) symbolical
  C) alliterative
  D) rhythmical
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  The correct answer is C .