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 131: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 132:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) contrast
  C) couplet
  D) diatribe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 133: The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) primal youth of the African
  C) beauty of the Concerto
  D) the decay of African Civilization.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 134:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'If we must die, let it not be like hogs

  Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

  While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs

  Making their mock at our accursed lot.'

  Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) disgust
  B) indignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 135:

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) formal and elaborate style and humour
  C) humour,rhyme scheme and five lines
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 136: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.Life, though a vanity Yet, not purpose full in drawling resignation Life's spice is in striveFrom the extract above, the poet suggests that Options:
  A) life is full of care
  B) there can't be life without stive
  C) life is worthwhile without care
  D) strive makes life worth living
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 137:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.'If it is true that the world talks too much

  Then let's all keep quiet

  And hear the eloquence

  Of silence'

  If it is True' by Richard Ntini

  One striking device used by the poet above is

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) contrast
  C) alliteration
  D) end-rhyme
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 138:

  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.

  In my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

  Options:
  A) indiscriminate love and admiration
  B) unrestrained blushing
  C) officious fool
  D) intermitent smiles
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 139:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________

  Options:
  A) he prefers lago
  B) Othello is a moor
  C) Rodgerigo woos her first
  D) Desdemona is too young
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 140:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of

  Options:
  A) shock
  B) disbelief
  C) acceptance
  D) grief
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  The correct answer is D .