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 31:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

  The statement above refers to

  Options:
  A) Romeo
  B) Tybalt
  C) Benvolio
  D) Juliet
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 32:

  Okara's reminiscence in the "Piano and Drums" as to how he walks to the farm with no shoes, marching thorns and dangerous leafs, and still finds this enjoyable creates a feeling of___________

  Options:
  A) nostalgia
  B) neglect of African culture for civilized styles
  C) clash of culture
  D) confusion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 33:

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metonymy
  C) metaphor
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 34:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 35: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.IN THE PLAY, THE TWO REVENGE PLOTS REVOLVE AROUND Options:
  A) Hamlet against Polonius and Laertes against Claudius
  B) Hamlet against Claudius and Laertes gainst Hamlet
  C) Claudius against Hamlet and Laertes against Gertrude
  D) Ophelia against Hamlet and Laertes against Hamlet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 36:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'

  In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) symbol
  C) allusion
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 37:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 38:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'If we must die, let it not be like hogs

  Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

  While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs

  Making their mock at our accursed lot.'

  Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) disgust
  B) indignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 39:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

  Options:
  A) Muslim faithfuls fight with bows and arrows while the British solders use rifles
  B) Emir of Zazzau calls the whitemen to save him from the attack of a fellow Muslim, the Emir of Kontagora
  C) emirates of Sokoto and Zaria have not been friends since the reign of Caliph Abduirahman
  D) emirates are only united to fight the whitemen when it is the turn of Sokoto
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 40:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....

  Iyase's entreaty comes when

  Options:
  A) the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  B) the whitemen attack Benin
  C) Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  D) Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
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  The correct answer is D .