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 91:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of

  Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) anger
  C) contempt
  D) pity
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 92:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

  Options:
  A) regression
  B) cadence
  C) rhyme
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 93:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of

  Options:
  A) shock
  B) disbelief
  C) acceptance
  D) grief
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 94: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of Options:
  A) Peace
  B) Plenty
  C) Love
  D) Truth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 95:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  ''From here the island of Fogo is a presence

  At Sunset

  The palm trees are slow singers of farewell

  The sail on the sea

  Writes in geometry of spume

  - departure of he who remains

  And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes

  -journey of he who never left!''

  Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) litotes
  C) hyperbole
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 96:

  The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as

  Options:
  A) Anamnesis
  B) Anagnorisis
  C) Hamartia
  D) Hubris
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 97:

  We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,

  But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,

  With an alien people clutching their goods.

  I should be glad of another death.

  The author of these lines is

  Options:
  A) W.B. Yeats
  B) Chinua Achebe
  C) Thomas Hardy
  D) T.S. Elliot
  E) E.G. Okara
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 98:

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

  The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an irregular verse
  C) an address
  D) a free verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 99:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  The dominant device in this extract is

  Options:
  A) progressive repetition
  B) progressive amplification
  C) bold contrast
  D) rhyetorical emphasis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 100: Miss Havisham grooms Estella the way she does so as to make Estella Options:
  A) a model lady
  B) a good wife to Pip
  C) a dependable character
  D) unattractive to men
  E) a means of torturing menfolk.
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  The correct answer is E .