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 601:

  Chansonis a term denoting a

  Options:
  A) popular Korean verse
  B) Song from the middle Ages
  C) Form of love song
  D) poem of Varied Metrical forms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 602:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

  Options:
  A) Twenty Dollars
  B) Twenty Five Dollars
  C) Thirty Dollars
  D) Thirty Five Dollars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 603:
  From the novel; Harvest of Corruption

  Chief Ade Amaka portrays_______

  Options:
  A) betrayal of public trust
  B) fraud and misfortune
  C) lust and deceitfulness
  D) the evils of capitalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 604:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An insincere literary work is known as

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) paradox
  C) satire
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 605:

  'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

  The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

  Options:
  A) hearing
  B) sight
  C) touch
  D) smell.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 606:

  A narrative poem must

  Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) describe natural scenery
  D) argue a question
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 607:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. 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: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,

  Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

  Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

  The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

  Options:
  A) Onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) rhythm
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 608: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 609:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 610:

  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 Duke's precious gift to the Duchess in Browning's 'My Last Duchess 'is

  Options:
  A) his family name
  B) a wedding ring
  C) his aristocratic class
  D) the title of a Duchess
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  The correct answer is D .