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 751:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The rhyme scheme of the poem is_________

  Options:
  A) acbcca
  B) abccdc
  C) abcdcc
  D) abacbc
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 752:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 753:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  In the novel, Faku deserts Garba for

  Options:
  A) prostitution
  B) survival
  C) city life
  D) vengeance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 754:

  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.

  In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 755: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adorationThe figure of speech in the lines above is Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) invocation
  C) personification
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 756: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.' This speaker of the lines above is Options:
  A) lago
  B) Cassio
  C) Desdemona
  D) Emilia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 757:

  The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

  Options:
  A) concept
  B) myth
  C) ritual
  D) motif
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 758:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'SINCE I am coming to that Holy roome,

  Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore

  I shall be made thy Musique; As I come

  I tune the Instrument here at the dore,

  And what I must doe then, thinke here before.'

  John Donne, 'hymn to God my God'

  In the stanza above, the poet recognizes that

  Options:
  A) God is his creator
  B) he is a choir master
  C) there is music in heaven
  D) he is near his death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 759:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The pot of the novel revolves around

  Options:
  A) the adventure of a great fish
  B) a man's adventure on the sea
  C) a man's fightwith a great fish
  D) a boy's fight with a great fish
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 760:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  "Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew No more of

  Options:
  A) Travelling
  B) Sick
  C) Dying
  D) Eloping
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  The correct answer is C .