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 851:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'James started showing interest in Buchi a long time ago. In playing the hunter, he realised that he needed a bait.

  This turned out to be his frequent offer of assistance to the needy young woman. But Buchi has proved to be a difficult game.

  The more James trailed her the more he realised that she could not be easily caught.'The choice of words in the passage above is remarkable because it is

  Options:
  A) largely confusing
  B) very difficult
  C) quite appropriate
  D) drawn from hunting
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 852:

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

  Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' can be interpreted as

  Options:
  A) a defence of the underprivileged
  B) an apology for the affluent
  C) a song of sorrow
  D) a reaction against labour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 853: 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 854:

  "Full fathom five thy father lies

  Of his bones are corals made

  Those are pearls that were his eyes

  Nothing of him that doth fade."The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is

  Options:
  A) baab
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) aabb
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 855:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse paints the picture of

  Options:
  A) peace amidst pestilence
  B) love in a hostile environment
  C) hatred inspired by state terror
  D) hunger in the midst of plenty
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 856: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, As a symbol of marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on Options:
  A) childbirth
  B) wealth
  C) male child
  D) female child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 857:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 858: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Tess of the d'Urbrvilles is an interrogation of the Victorian period's
  Options:
  A) double standard
  B) concept of love
  C) ideas about women
  D) celebration of industrialization
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 859:

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.

  Options:
  A) purgation
  B) peripeteia
  C) hubris
  D) anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 860:

  CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
  CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
  BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
  when you've abandoned it for some time.
  Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

  The literary devices in the dialogue above are

  Options:
  A) hyperbole and allusion
  B) irony and parody
  C) allusion and paradox
  D) humour and irony
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  The correct answer is A .