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 581: Tone and mood of a poem refers to Options:
  A) locale
  B) atmosphere
  C) setting
  D) space
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 582: Who succeeded Othello as Governor of Cyprus? Options:
  A) Cassio
  B) Lago
  C) Montano
  D) Gratiano
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 583:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 584: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.The subject matter of Adeoti's Naked Soles is Options:
  A) soul and mind
  B) hunger and strife
  C) suffering and despair
  D) hatred and bitterness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 585:

  A play in which the acts succeed on another without probable or necessary sequence is

  Options:
  A) Episodic
  B) Simple
  C) Linear
  D) Convoluted
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 586:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

  And laid my honour too unchary on it',

  There's something in me that

  Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

  A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) Metaphor
  C) Litotes
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 587:

  ''But it is not the time
  To lay wreaths
  For yesterdays crimes...''

  Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

  Options:
  A) the future is unpredictatble
  B) past sufferings are best forgotten
  C) there is no point crying over spilled milk
  D) mourning can be posponed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 588:

  "The officer, surrounded by these noises,

  Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

  To give them time to pull themselves together, and

  Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

  In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

  Options:
  A) sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
  B) contrast between savagery and order
  C) inability of the children to organize themselves
  D) children's emotional state and its consequences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 589: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.This novel can be described as Options:
  A) satirical
  B) metaphysical
  C) paradoxical
  D) allegorical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 590: Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:From the play, George is a Options:
  A) laboratory assistant
  B) pharmacist
  C) nurse
  D) medical doctor
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  The correct answer is D .