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: 'Nkosi Sikekela' in Brutus' 'After Exile', refers to a Options:
  A) general in the Zulu army
  B) Zulu song used as national anthem by Africans south of Zanbezi
  C) soldier in the Zulu army
  D) Zulu poem
  E) Zulu poet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1092: Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much With Us' is a Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) epic
  C) couplet
  D) quartrain
  E) tercet.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1093:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.

  W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) cbba cdda
  B) bbac ddac
  C) ddca bbca
  D) abbc addc
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1094:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  Options:
  A) Indifference
  B) Despair
  C) Apathy
  D) Nobility of mind
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1095:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epitaph
  B) anaphora
  C) tautology
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1096: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  In Lawrence's Bat the poet's attitude to bat is one of Options:
  A) fear
  B) sarcasm
  C) contempt
  D) flattering
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1097:

  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 1098:

  These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

  Women refuse to marry?

  Woman cannot exist except by man,

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

  Options:
  A) ironical statement
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pathetic fallacy
  D) chiasmus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1099:

  'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours...'

  The description of the town in this passage suggests

  Options:
  A) peaceful co-existence
  B) lack of progress
  C) warmth and friendliness
  D) organized living
  E) monotony
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1100: 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 .