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 211:

  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.

  The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being

  Options:
  A) blood thirsty
  B) brave
  C) humane
  D) fearful, yet patriotic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 212:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'Pataki and mustard flowers Like blue and yellow eyes Peep through the green grass'The literary devices used in the lines above from Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl'are

  Options:
  A) enjambment and alliteration
  B) repetition and assonance
  C) rhyme and limerick
  D) simile and irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 213: The treatment meted out to Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar shows Options:
  A) that roman soldiers despised poets generally
  B) Shakespeare's use of mistaken identity for comic effect in the play
  C) the misfortune of Roman poets
  D) the spontaneous reaction of the plebians after assassination of Caesar.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 214: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases......
  Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
  The poem above can best be described as
  Options:
  A) epic
  B) heroic
  C) praise
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 215: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to Options:
  A) Count Paris in Praise of Juliet
  B) annoy Tybalt
  C) take another wife
  D) serve as an assistance to Romeo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 216: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 217:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  The lesson which emerges from the fate of Ezeulu is that

  Options:
  A) the will of the priest is the will of his god
  B) Christianity is superior to traditional religion
  C) no man ever won judgement against his clan
  D) Captain Winterbottom was right afterall
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 218:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  In the novel, Faku deserts Garba for

  Options:
  A) prostitution
  B) survival
  C) city life
  D) vengeance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 219:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is

  Options:
  A) deja vu
  B) avant-garde
  C) medieval
  D) metaphysical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 220:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .