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 1751:

  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 end in a literary device known as

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) conceit
  C) transfered epithet
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1752:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A burlesque is

  Options:
  A) an exaggerated mockery of a literary work
  B) a sentimental comedy
  C) an account of a famous person's life
  D) a rhetorical device used for effect in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1753:

  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.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1754: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Caliban's intention to rape Miranda is born out of the desire to Options:
  A) marry her
  B) destroy the island
  C) compete with Ferdinand
  D) populate the island with Calibans
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1755:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,

  Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

  Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

  The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

  Options:
  A) Onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) rhythm
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1756:

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

  The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one

  Options:
  A) has loved and cared for one's spouse
  B) has left behind children to be remembered by
  C) has fulfilled one's destiny on earth
  D) will haunt the living for the past offences
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1757: In literature, a flat character can be described as one who Options:
  A) is undeveloped
  B) undergoes changes
  C) dies abruptly
  D) achieves greatness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1758: In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by Options:
  A) usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
  B) deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
  C) divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
  D) leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1759:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) ballad
  C) lyrical poem
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1760:

  Read the extract below and this answer question.The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of

  Dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream

  As it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.

  The underline expression in line 3 is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .