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 1091:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Romantic poetry emphasizes

  Options:
  A) the beauty of nature
  B) intimate relationships
  C) the love in human nature
  D) the romance in human aspiration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1092: 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 .
• Question 1093: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) consonance.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1094: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a Options:
  A) knife and a sword
  B) knife and gun
  C) hammer and a sickle
  D) matchet and a hammer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1095:

  In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'

  'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

  My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',

  The poet uses

  Options:
  A) alternative rhymes
  B) heroic couplet
  C) bank verse
  D) octosyllabic metre
  E) terza rima.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1096:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1097:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1098: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is Options:
  A) synaesthesia
  B) synecdoche
  C) metonymy
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1099:

  "In the cold hand of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike

  Shrunk to a sub-soil grub

  His head was hallowed and his brain

  On scales-was this a trick to prove

  Fore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of

  Options:
  A) juxtaposition
  B) rhetoric
  C) iambic meter
  D) allusions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1100: Brother Jero's attitude to his vocation is Options:
  A) self-denying
  B) commercial
  C) philanthropic
  D) nonchalant
  E) messianic.
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  The correct answer is B .