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 111:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'

  Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being

  Options:
  A) paradoxical
  B) anttithetical
  C) illogical
  D) tautological
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 112:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'what time night it is

  I do not know

  Except that like some fish

  Doped out of the deep

  I have bobbed up bellywise'.

  J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'

  Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Assonance
  C) Hyperbole
  D) Onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 113: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 114:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 115:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

  The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

  Options:
  A) dance and songs
  B) flashback.
  C) foreshadowing
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 116: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'An unlucky creation His mother, a street walker;His lying father,A champion at producing bastards.'B.S.: Tibenderana; The BastardThe subject of the poem above is Options:
  A) a prostitute
  B) the lying father
  C) the son
  D) the orphan
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 117:

  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 .
• Question 118: THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to Options:
  A) serve as a constract to Romeo's
  B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
  C) annoy Tybalt
  D) persuade Romeo to forget Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 119:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) uncertain
  B) afraid
  C) confidant
  D) hopeless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 120:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''

  The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

  The description above suggests

  Options:
  A) urban disorder
  B) a labyrinth
  C) clutter
  D) disharmony
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  The correct answer is A .