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 1081:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...

  I have never know you but your blood flows in my veins

  Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....

  David Diop, Africa'

  In the lines above, Diop uses

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1082:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1083:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The attitude of the narrator to religion in the novel is

  Options:
  A) fundamentalist
  B) liberal
  C) ambiguous
  D) fanatical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1084:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1085: Kongi's Harvest Options:
  A) Kongi is a democratic ruler
  B) Kongi is a socialist
  C) Kongi is a dictator
  D) Kongi is a respecter of tradition
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1086:

  "The all seeing sun

  Ne'er saw match since first the world begun."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The lines above were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Count Paris in praise of Juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Roseline
  D) Lady Capulet in praise of Roseline
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1087:

  This question is on Literary Appreciation

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'

  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) derisive
  B) ironic
  C) melancholic
  D) harsh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1088:

  '...He would be crown'd.

  How that may change his nature, there's the question

  It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.

  And that craves wary walking...'

  According to this passage, the crowning of Julius Caesar is

  Options:
  A) extremely desirable
  B) bound to change Caesar's nature for the better
  C) bound to promote the breeding of adders
  D) something to be approached with great caution
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1089: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1090: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  ''look at me jubilant for being given another opportunity to live longer, and see this foolish woman eager to end her own life when her maker is not yet ready for her...''
  The opportunity referred to in the extract above is Options:
  A) the misunderstanding between Nnaife and his wife
  B) narrowly escaping being knocked down
  C) the driver's encounter with Nnu Ego
  D) ominous visit of Agunwa
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  The correct answer is B .