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 1381:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'On the broken walls,

  Bats hang away from the sun

  Shadows of an ancient stranger

  Cast their presence over our shoulders

  A pathway leads to the abandoned gate.' Mazisi Kunene:The Fearful Ruin

  The dominant mood in the excerpt above is that of

  Options:
  A) exhilaration
  B) pleasure
  C) rage
  D) terror
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1382: Assonance in poetry is the repetition of Options:
  A) internal vowels in words
  B) stressed syllables in words
  C) consonant sounds in words
  D) final sounds at the end of a line
  E) final sounds at the begining of a line.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1383:

  You cannot know
  And should not bother
  Tide and market come and go
  And so shall yourmother

  
  In this verse the poet uses

  Options:
  A) alternate rhymes
  B) monomyme
  C) couplets
  D) triplets
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1384:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1385: Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two 'Abiku' poems by J.P Clark and Wole Soyinka? Options:
  A) in each of the two poems, the voice of the Abiku is heard
  B) while the tone of Clark's poem is conciliatory, that of Soyinka is defiant
  C) it would appear that making body marks on the two Abiku has not served the customary purpose of stopping them from coming again
  D) as the two poet portray them, Clark's Abiku can choose to stay or not to stay, but Soyinka's Abiku cannot.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1386:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1387:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

  Options:
  A) reflect reality
  B) be good actors
  C) justify their actions
  D) be creative on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1388:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) euphemism
  C) dramatic irony
  D) textual contrast
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1389: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  What prompts Nnu Ego to run to the effigy of her Chi is that Options:
  A) she is worried and sick
  B) she is pregnant
  C) the Chi asks her to come
  D) milk is dripping from her breasts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1390:

  Much madness is divinest sense

  To a discerning eye;

  Much sense is starkest madness.

  'This the majority

  In this, as all, prevails.

  Assent, and you are sane;

  Demur,-you're straightway dangerous,

  And handled with a chain.

  This poem reflects the

  Options:
  A) tyranny of the majority
  B) approval of the majority factor
  C) unhappiness that might is right
  D) great love for mad poeple.
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  The correct answer is A .