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 1371: This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.''O incomprehensible God!Shall my pilot be''These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the Options:
  A) mystery of existence
  B) omnipotence of God
  C) duality of life
  D) inevitability of death
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1372:

  In drama, comic reliefs often occur in_______

  Options:
  A) comedies
  B) tragedies
  C) historical plays
  D) romantic plays
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1373: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A short and witty remark is Options:
  A) a limerick
  B) a tercet
  C) an eptgram
  D) a litotes
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1374:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called

  Options:
  A) anagnorisis
  B) premonition
  C) harmatia
  D) empathy
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1375:

  'All day long, all along the line

  Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'

  For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means

  Options:
  A) creativity
  B) amusement
  C) relaxation
  D) restriction
  E) freedom.
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1376:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  ''A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about 'betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the heart.''

  These words are spoken by

  Options:
  A) Tamsir in breaking the news of Modou's second marriage to Ramatoulaye
  B) Modou in support of his relationship with Binetou
  C) Aunty Nabou in trying to convince Mawdo to marry her niece
  D) Mawdo Ba to justify his marrying Nabou out of a sense of duty
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1377: The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) a simile
  C) a personification
  D) an irony
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1378:

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

  The use of the traditional verse from in the play applies to

  Options:
  A) the character of Sir Charles Marlow
  B) the prologue songs and the epilogue
  C) male characters
  D) female characters
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1379:

  'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimesit flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.'
  -Cynthia James; Drumology

  The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  Options:
  A) olfactory and visual
  B) auditory and visual
  C) tactile and auditory
  D) olfactory and tactile
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1380: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of her love for Agbadi
  B) that is the tradition
  C) her father is dead
  D) of the safety of her child
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .