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:

  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.

  The recurrent nightmares in Ojaide's 'The Owl Wakes Us' suggest

  Options:
  A) a dreamful existence
  B) anxieties destroying peaceful sleep
  C) repression in governance
  D) broken promises
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 582:

  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 583:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 584: In The Victims, the two old women play the role of Options:
  A) guardians of tradition
  B) eavesdroppers
  C) witches
  D) chorus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 585:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  The prologue of any work is the

  Options:
  A) conclusion
  B) introduction
  C) middle
  D) turning point
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 586:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.'But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,

  Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother....'

  The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because

  Options:
  A) his wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
  B) the ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
  C) the ghost still loves his wife even in death
  D) the young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 587:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 588:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 589:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The dialogue at the end of the novel reveals

  Options:
  A) Li's resolve to sustain her marriage
  B) Li's tragic end
  C) Awa's role as the man of the house
  D) the cycle of life in Li's family
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 590: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies Options:
  A) unrequired love
  B) mutual love
  C) impossible love
  D) erotic love
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  The correct answer is B .