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 1211:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The object of the extract is____?

  Options:
  A) childishness
  B) the unchanging cycle of nature
  C) the adverse effect of old age
  D) human being
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1212:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is

  Options:
  A) a snob
  B) a coquette
  C) a spendthrift
  D) disrespectful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1213:

  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

  Options:
  A) Find faults in a literary work
  B) Analyze and evaluate a literary work
  C) compare and contrast novels
  D) Discover the beauty of a literary work.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1214:

  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 1215:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The branch of knowledge that places emphasis on beauty is

  Options:
  A) censure
  B) aesthetics
  C) philosophy
  D) philology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1216: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.In the play, social change is achieved through Options:
  A) collectivism
  B) sectionalism
  C) individual
  D) communism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1217: This Question is based on General Literacy principles and Literacy Appreciations. A poem used to express grief on the occasion of someone's death is _______? Options:
  A) elergy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1218: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.According to the play, the Duke of lllyria is fascinated by Options:
  A) the idea of love
  B) the food of love
  C) music
  D) entertainment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1219:

  How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...

  The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1220:

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

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .