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 801:

  Rhythm is achieved in Raleigh'sThe Soul's Errandthrough the use of

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) Antithesis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 802: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be descried as Options:
  A) dramatic epilogue
  B) dramatic monologue
  C) role-playing
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 803:

  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 effect of the repetition of the words

  'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that

  Options:
  A) a mood of bitterness is created
  B) the poet easily reveals his anger
  C) it captures the poet's desperation
  D) it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 804:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The play is essentially about the

  Options:
  A) theft of Mis Neville's trinket box
  B) comedy of errors of one night
  C) incompatibility of Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
  D) love affair between Kate and Marlow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 805:

  'But Obatal,

  God Creation,

  Has a way

  Of consoling the distressed.

  The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  Options:
  A) great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  B) subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  C) pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  D) birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 806:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.'

  William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) assonance
  C) metaphor
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 807: 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 theme of Cope's Sonnet VII is Options:
  A) art of poetry
  B) adventure
  C) contempt for literature
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 808: A device in drama where a character speaks alone is Options:
  A) soliloquy
  B) aside
  C) apostrophe
  D) dialogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 809:

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

  In Odia Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals', the attitude of the returnees is best described as

  Options:
  A) remorseful
  B) unrepentant
  C) hopeful
  D) despondent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 810:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
  B) that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
  C) the danger in the driving profession
  D) that roads are death-traps for drivers
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  The correct answer is A .