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:

  A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

  Options:
  A) six
  B) four
  C) three
  D) five
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 92:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  ...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies

  Options:
  A) meaningless foreign religious parctices
  B) meaningless indigenous religious practices
  C) the architectural beaty of the cathedral
  D) the Catholic Church parctices
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 93: 'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'The last statement in this passage is an example of Options:
  A) understatement
  B) overstatement
  C) hyperbole
  D) sarcastic humour
  E) poetic diction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 94:

  No. no1 Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.

  The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe against others.'

  O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.The speaker in the passage is

  Options:
  A) reckless
  B) insane
  C) a coward
  D) a hero
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 95:

  '...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,

  Sir, it provokes:it provokes the

  Desire, but it takes away the performance.'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as

  Options:
  A) equivocation
  B) allusion
  C) paradox
  D) monologue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 96:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

  Options:
  A) Short literary song
  B) Short literary story
  C) Short story that contains a song
  D) Short song that tells a story
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 97:

  Fatalism is crucial element in_________

  Options:
  A) melodrama
  B) tragi-comedy
  C) tragedy
  D) comedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 98: Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on Options:
  A) actual historical records
  B) plutarch's lives
  C) Greek mythology
  D) John Bunyan's lives.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 99: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as Options:
  A) assonance
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 100:

  'A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother's hut and tears stood in his eyes.'

  The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

  Options:
  A) death of Unoka
  B) killing of Ikemefuna
  C) exiling of Okonkwo
  D) transfer of Mr. Brown
  E) imprisonment of Okonkwo.
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  The correct answer is B .