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 121:

  Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word
  Pad

  Options:
  A) paid
  B) mail
  C) mat
  D) made
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 122:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 123:

  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

  Options:
  A) harrangue
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) saga
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 124:

  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.

  The Owl is used by Ojaide in this poem as a

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) symbol
  C) simile
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 125:

  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 126:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 127:

  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.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'

  In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) hyperbole
  C) alliteration
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 128:

  Use excerpt below to answer questions

  "Now, by yond marble
  heaven,
  In the due reverence of a sacred vow
  I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)

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  The prevailing activity in the extract is

  Options:
  A) the vow of revenge and pledge of loyalty by Iago to Othello
  B) evident of the conspiracy between Iago and Othello
  C) the vow by Iago to revenge upon Othello
  D) reflective of Othello's rage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) As soon as Ayo becomes the cocoa inspector
  B) Shortly before the beggars strike
  C) As soon as his mother starts kickiung against it.
  D) After their contemptuous treatment at the hands of Layeni
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 130:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

  Weep not child, weep not my darling

  With these kisses let me remove your tears

  The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious

  They shall no longer possess the sky....

  The speaker of the lines is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) carefree
  C) helpless
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is A .