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 1571:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...

  I have never know you but your blood flows in my veins

  Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....

  David Diop, Africa'

  In the lines above, Diop uses

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1572:

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

  For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?

  Options:
  A) Rigours of formal courtship
  B) Being introduced to a wife
  C) Demands by in-laws
  D) Demands by the wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1573:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  Boateng describes the writers' studio as a place where

  Options:
  A) writers have been sold
  B) writers work hard at their writings
  C) people discuss real writing
  D) writing materials are sold
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1574:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) caricature
  C) burlesque
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1575:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The Christs

  Are still in performing miracles

  In the market places

  Heroding the masses with imperatives

  Feeding the hungry

  With 21-gun salutes

  For victories that are yet to be won.'

  Odia Ofeimun, 'The Messiahs'

  The attitude of the poet to his subject in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) ironic
  B) sarcastic
  C) benevolent
  D) explosive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1576:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

  The excerpt above is an example of

  Options:
  A) invocation
  B) ode
  C) elegy
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1577:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1578:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The line 'under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres' in Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' is a good example of

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) metonymy
  C) contrast
  D) similitude
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1579: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.'Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is Options:
  A) satiric
  B) affectionate
  C) indifferent
  D) sympathetic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1580:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'Here lies a great and mighty king

  Whose promise none relies on

  He never said a foolish thing

  Not ever did a wise one'.

  The lines above could best from an

  Options:
  A) epistle
  B) episode
  C) epiphany
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is D .