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 1:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face

  This act can be interpreted to mean

  Options:
  A) regression into savagery
  B) that he is now fully ready for the dance
  C) an attempt to hide from the other children
  D) an attempt to hide from the animals he wishes to hunt
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2:

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

  The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a

  Options:
  A) burnt finger
  B) broken promise
  C) torn dress
  D) broken fence
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________
  "Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!" Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) Oxymoron
  C) Alliteration
  D) Euphemism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4: This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.''O incomprehensible God!Shall my pilot be''These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the Options:
  A) mystery of existence
  B) omnipotence of God
  C) duality of life
  D) inevitability of death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5: The banished Duke regained his kingdom when his brother Frederick Options:
  A) was defeated in battle
  B) was rejected by his people
  C) died on his way to the woods
  D) was converted by a religious man
  E) became too old to rule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  "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 7:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) ballad
  C) tercet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 8:

  'The early morning smoke had now gone off the eyes of the day. Trees and houses were still wet from last night's rain, but a cool breeze caressed the world like a gentle hand.'

  The dominant literary device in this passage is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) oxymoron
  C) synecdoche
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of Options:
  A) the old generation
  B) new generation
  C) present generation
  D) successive generation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10: Point out the odd term Options:
  A) Enjambment
  B) Rhyme
  C) Alliteration
  D) Assonance
  E) plot.
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  The correct answer is E .