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 21: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, in the Achike family,the character who is central to the theme is Options:
  A) Jaja
  B) Kambili
  C) Mama
  D) Sisi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 22: In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was Options:
  A) a sense of disillusionment
  B) a feeling of utter shame
  C) anger of disgust
  D) one of excitement.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 23:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

  Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'

  The stanza above succinctly presents the

  Options:
  A) problem of war
  B) problem of hunger
  C) folly of soldiers
  D) repercussion of violence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 24: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

  The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 26:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.The following epithets:

  'The courageous captain of compliments...

  The very butcher of a silk button...

  A gentleman of the very first house...'

  Refer to

  Options:
  A) Tybalt
  B) Romeo
  C) Mercutio
  D) Benvolio.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 27:

  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 confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence's poem 'Snake' arises from

  Options:
  A) education and love
  B) fascination and fear
  C) anger and hospitability
  D) protest and regret
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 28:

  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.

  The subject matter of Kassam's 'Maji Maji is

  Options:
  A) soci-economic crises
  B) independence
  C) politics
  D) colonialism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 29:

  ... a didactic poem, especially such with animals as characters may be distinctively described as a/an_________

  Options:
  A) Romance
  B) gothic poem
  C) limerick
  D) apologue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 30: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is Options:
  A) Claudius
  B) Lucianus
  C) Gozango
  D) Baptista
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  The correct answer is D .