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 741:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A motif is

  Options:
  A) a recurrent image in a work of literature
  B) the reason behind a character's behaviour
  C) a single matrical line
  D) an essay or treatise on a particular subject
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 742:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a haven

  Nowhere as absolute as the grave.

  The poetic device used in these lines from J.P. Clark's 'The Casualties' is

  Options:
  A) an allusion
  B) a paradox
  C) an anecdote
  D) an oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 743:

  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 744:

  The combination of two or more metaphors is called

  Options:
  A) Monometaphor
  B) Dymetaphor
  C) Mixed metaphor
  D) Combined metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 745: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  How does Lugard describe the battle between the white man and the Sokoto Caliphate? Options:
  A) One between superior and inferior powers
  B) One of life and death
  C) One between Christians and Muslims
  D) One of the superiority of wills
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 746:

  A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

  Options:
  A) six
  B) four
  C) three
  D) five
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 747:

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Melancholic
  B) Ironic
  C) Harsh
  D) Derisive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 748:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 749:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
  B) the harvest season came too early
  C) the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
  D) Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 750:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,

  For it hath cowed my better part of man;

  And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...

  That keep the word of promise to our ear,

  And break it to our hope...'

  The speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Macduff confronted Macbeth for the final battle
  B) Macbeth realized the truth of the witches prediction
  C) Duncan heard that Malcolm and Macduff had descended on Dunsinane to attack Macbeth
  D) Macbeth heard that his wife had been killed
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  The correct answer is A .