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 101: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to Options:
  A) his beloved country for which he yearns
  B) his love
  C) his love interfused with yearning for his country
  D) a not easily discernible subject.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 102:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  '...let the greying day grow

  ....let the evening horns blow

  ....let the melting mountains go

  ....but let the sundown sow''

  To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai

  The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

  Options:
  A) metaphorical
  B) symbolical
  C) alliterative
  D) rhythmical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 103:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of

  Options:
  A) Adah's unifaithfulness to Francis
  B) the influence of British culture
  C) Adah's desire for personal fulfilment
  D) external pressures on the couple
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 104:

  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 105: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 106: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called Options:
  A) dialetic
  B) decadent
  C) definitive
  D) didactic.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 107:

  The dominant mood in Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is that of___________

  Options:
  A) Acceptance
  B) Anxiety
  C) Uncertainty
  D) Readiness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 108:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) allusion
  C) ambiguity
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 109:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for

  Options:
  A) an imported alcoholicdrink
  B) a brand of elitist cigrette
  C) a newly commissioned road network
  D) Gold Coast Transport Corporation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 110:

  Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________

  Options:
  A) Prosaic
  B) Lyrical
  C) Analogical
  D) Metaphorical
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  The correct answer is D .