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 1451:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.

  Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'

  The character in the poem above is obviously a

  Options:
  A) veteran
  B) prisoner
  C) mercenary
  D) refugee
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1452:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An iambic metrical foot consists of

  Options:
  A) an unstressed syllable foolowing a stressed syllable
  B) a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
  C) an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
  D) a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1453:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

  Options:
  A) digression
  B) flashback
  C) regression
  D) reverie
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1454:

  'This thing you are doing is too heavy

  For you, he said.'I went to school only a little

  But i have killed many more years in this

  World than you have.' G. Okara: The VoiceIt can be inferred from the the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is more experienced
  B) speaker is more experienced
  C) listener is wise
  D) speaker is a porter
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1455: "The madman has entered our house with violence
  Defiling our sacred grounds
  Claiming the single truth of the universe
  Bending down our priest with iron".
  Mazzizi Kunnene's progress
  The imagery of the line above captures the idea of Options:
  A) coercion
  B) truth
  C) religiosity
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1456: Ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) discussed
  B) read
  C) sung
  D) acted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1457: In Great Expectations, Pips nursing of Magwitch is significant because it Options:
  A) prevents Magwitch's immediate death by prolonging his life
  B) enables Magwitch to confirm Pip's as his heir
  C) recalls Herbert's nursing of Pip
  D) shows Pip's moral regeneration.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1458:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...'

  Shakespeare, Othello

  From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) disobedient
  B) quarrelsome
  C) servile
  D) scheming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1459:

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) condemn
  B) elaborate
  C) abuse
  D) praise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1460:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

  Options:
  A) oppression
  B) mendacity
  C) partiality
  D) embezziement
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  The correct answer is B .