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 1181:

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

  In Agostinho Neto's 'Night', night basically symbolises

  Options:
  A) Political oppression
  B) social deprivation
  C) moral depravity
  D) spiritual decay
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1182: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  That quality in a literary work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is Options:
  A) pathopoeia
  B) pathos
  C) pataphysics
  D) patois
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1183:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?

  If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?

  The literary style used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) discursive
  B) rhetorical
  C) accusative
  D) interrogative
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1184: 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.The theme of the Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) the conflict of traditions
  B) the futility of man and his tradition
  C) the strenght in diversity of culture and traditional views
  D) ensuring that traditions and beliefs were strictly observed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1185:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,

  That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) detects discrimination
  B) is desirous of adventure
  C) hates his old wife
  D) knows much of his city men
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1186: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Satirical writing employs Options:
  A) synechdoche
  B) irony
  C) onomatipoeia
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1187:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

  Options:
  A) theatre of the absurd
  B) role-playing
  C) audience participation
  D) total theatre
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1188: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. 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: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Time winged chariot"The line above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress depicts Options:
  A) the measurement of time
  B) how fast events unfold
  C) how fast time flies
  D) the usefulness of time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1189:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1190:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence

  The dominant technique in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) rhyme
  C) alliteration
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .