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 1061:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A foil in drama is also known as

  Options:
  A) flat character
  B) protagonist
  C) round character
  D) antagonist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1062:

  "Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

  Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

  Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

  And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

  Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

  You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

  Options:
  A) clean up broken bottles
  B) come to self-knowledge
  C) realize your vision is blurred
  D) surrender to your weakness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1063: In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop expresses his Options:
  A) hope that African will triumph over colonialism
  B) hatred of Africans
  C) affections of the colonial masters
  D) love of forced romances
  E) hatred of women.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1064:

  Which of these is the meaning of CAST?

  Options:
  A) a list of all characters in a drama
  B) what the character is saying
  C) the person who writes the drama
  D) a list of protagonists in a drama
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1065:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1066: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The end of Give Me The Minstrel's seatseems to suggest that one needs the Options:
  A) support of others
  B) complete command of one's wives
  C) support of one's kinsmen
  D) aid of pots
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1067:

  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 of'As if men hung here unbloom,

  Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

  Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

  The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

  Options:
  A) Onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) rhythm
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1068:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

  And laid my honour too unchary on it',

  There's something in me that

  Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

  A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) Metaphor
  C) Litotes
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1069:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?

  Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's

  The literary device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pun
  D) run-on-line
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1070:

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

  '....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

  What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

  Options:
  A) The visit of the court messenger
  B) The unexpected consultation of Ezeulu with the chiefs of Umuaro
  C) The friendship between Ezeulu and the whiteman
  D) Ezeulu's rejection of the kind gesture of some chiefs to accompany him to Okperi
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  The correct answer is C .