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 541: What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its Options:
  A) emotion and feeling
  B) ungrammatical expressions
  C) irony and paradox
  D) rhyme and verse
  E) rhyme and metaphor.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 542:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

  Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) mythical
  B) biblical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 543:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The line 'under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres' in Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' is a good example of

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) metonymy
  C) contrast
  D) similitude
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 544:

  ... may be said to be a critical subject of concern in Blake's "School Boy"

  Options:
  A) adventurism
  B) futility of life and time
  C) moral rectitude
  D) academic development
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 545:

  "But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

  Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

  The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

  Options:
  A) first person narrator
  B) protagonist
  C) antagonist
  D) omniscient narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 546:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'Woman cannot exist except by man

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?

  The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) transferred epithet
  C) synechdoche
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 547: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.At the end of Ovonramwen's discussion with Gallway and Hutton, one can conclude that Ovonramwen is Options:
  A) fascinated by their gifts
  B) eager to sign the trade treaty presented
  C) suspicious about their real intentions
  D) ready to welcome them
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 548:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'And so Tom awake and we rose in the dark

  And got with our bags and our brushes to work

  Though the morning was cold. Tom was happy and warm;

  So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

  In the lines above. Tom is warm because he

  Options:
  A) has just woken from sleep
  B) is doing his duty
  C) is wearing warm clothes
  D) is working indoors
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 549:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) theme
  B) plot
  C) structure
  D) setting
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 550:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

  The excerpt above is an example of

  Options:
  A) invocation
  B) ode
  C) elegy
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .