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 1341: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1342: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Caliban's intention to rape Miranda is born out of the desire to Options:
  A) marry her
  B) destroy the island
  C) compete with Ferdinand
  D) populate the island with Calibans
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1343: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.The mob in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a monster and a snake
  B) a bad group
  C) demonstrators
  D) fighters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1344:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'We have come to the crossroads

  And I must either leave or come with you

  I lingered over the choice

  But in the darkness of my doubts

  You lifted the lamp of love

  And I saw in your face

  The road that I should take',

  'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew

  The poem ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) indecision
  B) despair
  C) hope
  D) determination
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1345:

  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 Rubadiri's 'Stanley Meets Mutesa' the king receives the explorer with

  Options:
  A) suspicion
  B) delight
  C) optimism
  D) relief
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1346:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A 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. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'On the sand hill her footprints Gleam like a prisoner's chain

  The lines above from Mohan Singh's .

  'A village girl' suggest the girl's

  Options:
  A) firmness of bearing
  B) slow movement
  C) difficult in walking
  D) psychedelic movement
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1347:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

  'Wisely and slow. The stumble that run fast'.

  This note of caution comes from

  Options:
  A) Benvolio to Mercutio
  B) Capulet to Paris
  C) Friar to Romeo
  D) Nurse to Juliet.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1348:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

  And it but mimic all we would believe

  With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

  P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

  The stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) quatrain
  B) couplet
  C) free verse
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1349:

  One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist

  Options:
  A) C. Achebe
  B) C. Ekwensi
  C) W. Soyinka
  D) J.P Clark
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1350:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird

  The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.

  But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.

  Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  Options:
  A) Koomson
  B) Oyo
  C) The man
  D) Teacher
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  The correct answer is C .