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 411: Joe Gargery is important in Great Expectations mainly because he Options:
  A) is used as a foil to Pip
  B) provides the comedy in the story
  C) helped to bring Pip up by hand
  D) nursed Pip when he was sick in London.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 412:

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

  Kate could best be described as

  Options:
  A) s mild tempered heroine
  B) an unassuming aristocrat
  C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
  D) an acutely sensitive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 413:

  'Was it for this you took such constant care

  The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare?

  For this your locks in paper durance bound?

  For this with tort'ring iron wreath'd round?

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) parody
  D) apostrophe.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 414: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.In Owonibi's Homeless, not Hopeless, the persona explains that street beggars Options:
  A) are concerned with their daily needs
  B) always worry about heaven
  C) rarely sleep and dream
  D) attend conferences in towns
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 415:

  In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) litotes
  C) exaggeration
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 416:

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

  '...Tide and market come and go

  And so shall your mother.'

  The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside

  Exchange' depict the

  Options:
  A) variation of season
  B) changing periods of marketing
  C) constancy of nature
  D) importance of living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 417:

  'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,

  Hold back hold back-is the time- oh

  Endless time-slung in oblivion,

  Make minced meat of your prey.'

  Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

  The mood captured in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) happiness
  C) indifference
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 418:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

  And it but mimic all we would believe

  With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

  P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

  The stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) quatrain
  B) couplet
  C) free verse
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 419:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

  In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is

  Options:
  A) a snob
  B) a coquette
  C) a spendthrift
  D) disrespectful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 420:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) abuse
  B) condemn
  C) praise
  D) elaborate
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  The correct answer is C .