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 1081:

  'This thing you are doing is too heavy

  For you, he said.'I went to school only a little

  But i have killed many more years in this

  World than you have.' G. Okara: The VoiceIt can be inferred from the the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is more experienced
  B) speaker is more experienced
  C) listener is wise
  D) speaker is a porter
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1082:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

  The excerpt above is an example of

  Options:
  A) invocation
  B) ode
  C) elegy
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1083:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to

  England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.

  The subject matter of the passage above is the

  Options:
  A) uncritical acceptance of European values
  B) woes of English marriage
  C) adventures in England
  D) intransigence of an African wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1084:

  The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

  Options:
  A) stanza
  B) rhythm
  C) rhyme
  D) verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1085:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The madman has entered our house with violence

  Defiling our sacred grounds

  Claiming the single truth of the universe

  Bending down our high priests with iron,'

  Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'

  The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of

  Options:
  A) coercion
  B) religiousity
  C) truth
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1086:

  A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

  Options:
  A) six
  B) four
  C) three
  D) five
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1087:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called

  Options:
  A) stage direction
  B) dramatic irony
  C) setting
  D) improvisation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1088:

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metonymy
  C) metaphor
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1089:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be described as

  Options:
  A) dramatic epilogue
  B) dramatic monologue
  C) role-playing
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1090: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .