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 631:

  The hunter dies
  and leaves his poverty to his gun
  The blacksmith dies
  and leaves his poverty to his anvil...
  The extract above is an example of

  Options:
  A) epic
  B) eulogy
  C) ballad
  D) elegy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 632:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation. '' 'The white man of God is coming here for Easter! The white man of God is coming to spend Easter with us!' This was the talk everywhere in Nkar among the old and young, even among the pagans. We had been taught everything about him in advance, When he comes we should observe his beard and see if it was not forked like that of .Christ.''

  Kenjo Jumban:The white man of God From the passage, the white man of God is treated with

  Options:
  A) awe
  B) derision
  C) suspicion
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 633:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must

  Options:
  A) be sung to a musical instrument
  B) be sung by the poet who composes it
  C) express the poet's subjective emotions
  D) be simple and successful.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 634:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as

  Options:
  A) a perfectly realistic representation of the Duchess
  B) not quite capturing the Duchess emotions
  C) his most highly prized item
  D) something he is willing to pay dowry for
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 635:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

  Do you bring some balm

  To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

  Away, your enemy!'

  What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

  Options:
  A) An antiseptic ointment
  B) A special method of massage
  C) News about Sidi
  D) A gourd of palm wine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 636:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Still stand stubborn

  To stones that strangle the dawn,

  Still stand stubborn

  To stones that maim the morn,

  Still stand stubborn

  To stones that assail the sun'

  Atukwei Okai, 'Sunset Sonata'

  The dominant literary device employed in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) metonymy
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 637:

  'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'

  In this passage, axe of intemperance means

  Options:
  A) hot temper
  B) cool temper
  C) evil mind
  D) recklessness.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 638: "Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face" The excerpt above exemplifies _______? Options:
  A) Irony
  B) synedoche
  C) symbolism
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 639: A play is a Tragedy when Options:
  A) the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
  B) the main chracter dies before the play ends
  C) there is much blood shed in the play
  D) the main character is a wicked person
  E) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 640:

  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.

  In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) double rhymes
  C) assonance
  D) end rhymes
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  The correct answer is A .