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 1701:

  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 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

  Options:
  A) soldiers who die in the war
  B) insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
  C) the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
  D) those whose property is destoryed during a war
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1702:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

  For old, unhappy, far off things

  And battles long ago.

  Or is it some more humble lay,

  Familiar matter of today?The lines above shows that the persona

  Options:
  A) so hates the words of the girl
  B) understands the girl's songs
  C) does not understand the girl's language
  D) is so much in love with the girl
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1703:

  "The sun used to smile in my hut".

  The line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) Rhetorical Question
  D) Zeugma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1704:

  'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.

  In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

  Options:
  A) sea storms
  B) rain storms
  C) storming raids by the racist police
  D) storms of passion.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1705:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) paradox
  C) hyperbole
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1706: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  'The silence of the battlefield heralds the widow's anguish.'
  The widow in the lines above in Launko's End of the War is in anguish because of the
  Options:
  A) confirmation of her husband's death
  B) uncertainty over husband returning alive
  C) delay in the husband's return from the battlefield
  D) death of all the soldiers in the battlefield
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1707:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The rhyme scheme of the poem is_________

  Options:
  A) acbcca
  B) abccdc
  C) abcdcc
  D) abacbc
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1708:

  Analogy is the arrangement of two ideas that are_________

  Options:
  A) opposite
  B) similar
  C) symbolic
  D) repetitive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1709:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A denouement in a play

  Options:
  A) causes conflicts
  B) creates conflicts
  C) resolves conflicts
  D) creates catastrophe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1710:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) portagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .