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 141: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.'Since it was you who in all these thin seasons."The device employed in the line above from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, is an example of Options:
  A) anecdote
  B) aside
  C) apostrophe
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 142:

  Use the lines below to answer these two questions.

  Move him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Wake, once,the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs. so dear achieved, are

  Sides Full nerved still warm too hard to stir Was it, for this the clay grew tall?O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all.

  THE POEM CAN BE DESCRIBED AS

  Options:
  A) an epic
  B) a sonnet
  C) an elegy
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 143:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?

  Options:
  A) her parents
  B) Jimmy
  C) Helena
  D) Cliff
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 144: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a Options:
  A) bicycle owner
  B) chief clerk
  C) chief messenger
  D) deputy to Jero
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 145:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,

  And tell sad stories of the death of kings;

  How some have been deposed, some slain in war

  Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed

  Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,

  All murdered;

  William Shakespeare:King Richard II

  The subject matter of the speech above is

  Options:
  A) regicide
  B) suicide
  C) infanticide
  D) parricide
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 146: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is Options:
  A) trochaic decametre
  B) iambic pentametre
  C) anapestic metre
  D) dactylic metre
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 147:

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

  'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'

  In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that

  Options:
  A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  B) he cannot do good deeds
  C) action often conflicts with knowledge
  D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 148:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Lineation refers to

  Options:
  A) tracing family descent of poeple in verse
  B) the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
  C) the arrangement of lines in verse from
  D) the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 149:

  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 .
• Question 150:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The plot of the novel is

  Options:
  A) cyclical
  B) achronological
  C) convoluted
  D) linear
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  The correct answer is B .