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 181:

  "...Lying down in the melting snow.

  There were times we regretted

  The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

  And the silken girls bringing sherbert."The emotion evoked in this passage from "Journey of the Magi" is that of

  Options:
  A) romance
  B) nostalgia
  C) sorrow
  D) fear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 182: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through Options:
  A) the complaints of Biddy
  B) the pretensions of Pumblechook
  C) his rejection by Estella
  D) the death of his sister
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 183: How many stanza and lines does William Moris' poem "the proud king" has? Options:
  A) 119 stanzas and 849 lines
  B) 109 stanzas and 849 lines
  C) 119 stanzas and 850 lines
  D) 109 stanzas and 850 lines
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 184: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African VerseThe use of enjambment in Cheney-Coker's Myopia emphasizes the Options:
  A) anger of the peasants
  B) beauty of the poem
  C) distressed mood of the persona
  D) arrangement of the stanzas
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 185:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A creative process in which abstract entities such as virtues and vices are used with intended double meaning is called

  Options:
  A) tragedy
  B) fallacy
  C) allegory
  D) farce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 186:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

  Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

  The literary term used for this kind of writing is

  Options:
  A) biography
  B) autograph
  C) orthography
  D) autobiography
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 187:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.

  Cynthia James: Drumology

  The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  Options:
  A) olfactory and visual
  B) olfactory and tactile
  C) auditory and visual
  D) tactile and auditory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 188:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 189: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A dirge is a Options:
  A) romantic poem
  B) poem on nature
  C) poem of expectations
  D) poem of lament
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 190:

  When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
  I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) protest
  C) rejection
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .