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 281:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 282:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

  I summon up remembrance of things past,...

  Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

  The lines above contain the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) a motif
  B) irony
  C) sarcasm
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 283:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In the poem 'The Prodigals' the line 'their heads are claimed by clouds' means that the military leaders

  Options:
  A) travel a lot by air
  B) are haughty
  C) love sunny weather
  D) dislike clouds
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 284: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 285:

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

  The play is essentially about the

  Options:
  A) theft of Mis Neville's trinket box
  B) comedy of errors of one night
  C) incompatibility of Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
  D) love affair between Kate and Marlow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 286:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The speech is made by

  Options:
  A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
  B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
  C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 287:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a

  Options:
  A) hexameter
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 288:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Which of the following qualities best describes Jero's ability to keep his followers?

  Options:
  A) He is a man of God
  B) He distributes gifts to his followers
  C) He foretells their future
  D) He manipulates them
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 289:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.

  Odewale says this because

  Options:
  A) Aderopo is a skilful drummer
  B) he believes that Aderopo is plotting his overthrow
  C) he thinks that Aderopo is mad
  D) Aderopo has not learnt how to drum well.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 290:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

  Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is B .