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 711:

  This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

  The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

  Options:
  A) Laboratory attendant is trying to act as a nurse
  B) The medical doctor is in love with Maanan
  C) James sees Awere as a bad influence
  D) Lawyer B is trying to Kiss Maanan.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 712: "....checking the coins against the tickets, he began to count the morning's take. It was mostly what he expected at this time of the month: small coins, a lot of pesewas,..."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,what time of the month is being referred to in the above statement from the novel? Options:
  A) Passion week
  B) Passover week
  C) Pay day
  D) Rainy day
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 713: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 714: The poem 'Viaticum' portrays a ritual preparation for Options:
  A) life's journey
  B) a war dance
  C) wrestling match
  D) slaughtering cattle
  E) moonlight game
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 715:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Cliph...Son. Open all your ears. May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands..Now the rest is my burden. I am willing to accept Allah's will in the matter.The Language of the speaker above is

  Options:
  A) submissive
  B) inciting
  C) diplomatic
  D) imploring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 716: Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet? Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo
  B) Rosaline rejection of Romeo's love
  C) Juliet's confiding in her nurse
  D) The death of Lady Mountague.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 717:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries

  If we weep gently....'

  What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

  Options:
  A) regret and disappointment
  B) disillusion and despair
  C) disdain and disgust
  D) satisfaction and pleasure
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 718:

  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 719: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  Romeo is banished to Mantua because he Options:
  A) marries Juliet without parental consent
  B) attends Capulet's party uninvited
  C) attempts to kill Paris his rival
  D) kills Tybalt in a street duel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 720: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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 Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning due..."The excerpt above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of Options:
  A) simile
  B) anaphora
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopia
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  The correct answer is A .