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 General Literary Appreciation

  A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) prosody
  C) pun
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3: A couplet is a Options:
  A) succession of three rhyming lines
  B) succession of two rhyming lines
  C) poem of two stanzas
  D) poem of three stanzas
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) theme
  B) plot
  C) structure
  D) setting
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?

  Options:
  A) her parents
  B) Jimmy
  C) Helena
  D) Cliff
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.

  W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) cbba cdda
  B) bbac ddac
  C) ddca bbca
  D) abbc addc
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

  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.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  You solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;...

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' constitute

  Options:
  A) a soliloguy
  B) an aside
  C) an apostrophe
  D) an interior monologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 8: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.the medicine man links the lump discovered on the head of Nnu Ego at birth, to the Options:
  A) wound inflicted on the slave woman buried with Agbadi's wife
  B) coming back of the Agunwa to the society to live again
  C) ill-luck and tragic events attributed to a predestined fate
  D) possession of physical admirable qualities that makes her an epitoma of perfection
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) imagery
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A work which takes place in a non-existent world or which concerns an incredible character is

  Options:
  A) romance
  B) fantasy
  C) parody
  D) superstition
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  The correct answer is B .