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: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.As the dancers move through paths strewn with glass chips, the image in Adeoti's Naked Soles change from Options:
  A) inaction to action
  B) pain to grief
  C) sorrow to joy
  D) joy to excitement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 602:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  In the play, the Oba's poetic language reveals his

  Options:
  A) humility
  B) heroism
  C) nobility
  D) haughtiness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 603: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Time out of mind
  the going was easy
  because of oil boom
  we glutted and plotted,
  as mad as a hatter'.
  The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) dissonance
  C) slapstick
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 604:

  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 605:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for

  Options:
  A) an imported alcoholicdrink
  B) a brand of elitist cigrette
  C) a newly commissioned road network
  D) Gold Coast Transport Corporation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 606:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

  Options:
  A) reflect reality
  B) be good actors
  C) justify their actions
  D) be creative on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 607: These question is base on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.In the novel, the handing over of a baby boy in a dream to Nnu Ego by her personal god signifies Options:
  A) reincarnation
  B) idol worship
  C) doom
  D) future blessing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 608: Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) a lyric
  C) dramatic monologue
  D) ballad
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 609: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
  Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
  Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
  The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
  These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
  Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of Options:
  A) zeugma
  B) oxymoron
  C) antithesis
  D) conceit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 610:

  Much madness is divinest sense

  To a discerning eye;

  Much sense is starkest madness.

  'This the majority

  In this, as all, prevails.

  Assent, and you are sane;

  Demur,-you're straightway dangerous,

  And handled with a chain.

  This poem reflects the

  Options:
  A) tyranny of the majority
  B) approval of the majority factor
  C) unhappiness that might is right
  D) great love for mad poeple.
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  The correct answer is A .