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 Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  '' We are here to die of rage! say die of rage because this time the uncircumcised have gone too far...''
  The word uncircumcised in the statement above by Nti refers to Options:
  A) Nua and Mvondo
  B) the whites
  C) the people of Doum
  D) the white farmers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

  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 3:

  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 4: "And blossoms blown away"
  The line above from William Blake's poem " The school boy" is an example of Options:
  A) personification
  B) euphemism
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5: Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem? Options:
  A) Rhyme
  B) Repetition
  C) Rhythm
  D) Symbolism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

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

  'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...

  The rains have come, the field is prepared,

  But my field remains untilled,...

  The statement above reflects the

  Options:
  A) laziness of the farmer
  B) agony of unfulfilment
  C) agony of a wasted fertility
  D) consequences of an unrequited love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: Purgation of emotion, pity and fear is Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) catastrophe
  C) epilogue
  D) exposition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8:

  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.

  'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'

  These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet

  Options:
  A) appreciates the environment of his experience
  B) is insensitive to his experience
  C) is unable to believe his experience
  D) believes both his environment and experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'Here lies a great and mighty king

  Whose promise none relies on

  He never said a foolish thing

  Not ever did a wise one'.

  The lines above could best from an

  Options:
  A) epistle
  B) episode
  C) epiphany
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is D .