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 641:

  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 642: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as Options:
  A) characterization
  B) allegory
  C) metaphor
  D) paralellism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 643: Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given wordAccount Options:
  A) surmount
  B) acom
  C) aground
  D) astound
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 644: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 645:

  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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

  Options:
  A) disease, illness and death
  B) aristocracy, affluence and wealth
  C) poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
  D) greed aristocracy and the ambitious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 646: A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as Options:
  A) exclamation
  B) litotes
  C) metonymy
  D) hyperbole
  E) antonym.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 647:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  '...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;

  Tell her, red ant upon the tree;

  If she passes this way, I am gone,

  I am gone to load my gun

  No matter how hidden deep her treasure,

  By my father's coffin I swear

  I'll shoot my way to it this day;

  Son of the hunter King

  There is liquid fire in my gun!

  ' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft

  The beauty of this poem is built upon its

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) extended images of treasure and gun
  C) the protagonist's boastfulness
  D) the arrangement of the lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 648:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  The dominant device in this extract is

  Options:
  A) progressive repetition
  B) progressive amplification
  C) bold contrast
  D) rhyetorical emphasis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 649:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

  Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

  The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

  Options:
  A) a suspenseful opening
  B) an appropriate setting
  C) short clear sentences
  D) images of violence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 650: The treatment meted out to Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar shows Options:
  A) that roman soldiers despised poets generally
  B) Shakespeare's use of mistaken identity for comic effect in the play
  C) the misfortune of Roman poets
  D) the spontaneous reaction of the plebians after assassination of Caesar.
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  The correct answer is B .