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 401:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's

  'Snake' refers to

  Options:
  A) culture
  B) primitive instincts
  C) the hissing sound of a snake
  D) someone whispering to himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 402: Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined Vice Options:
  A) cat
  B) dress
  C) show
  D) chalk
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 403: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 404: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of a line is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) alliteration
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 405:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 406:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

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

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) allegory
  C) allusion
  D) ambiguity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 407:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) exposition
  C) structure
  D) symbol
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 408:

  In Herbert's "The Pulley", God's supremacy is exemplified through______

  Options:
  A) His withholding of the gift of rest
  B) the insatiable nature of man's needs
  C) His unending love for mankind
  D) His blessings of man with many gifts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 409:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The play is

  Options:
  A) a melodrama
  B) a tragedy
  C) an epic
  D) a farce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 410:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .