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 1121:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'

  The speaker in the passage above is referring to a

  Options:
  A) moon gazer
  B) slave raider
  C) muezzin
  D) usurper
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1122: The tone used in the poem Owusu is that of Options:
  A) admiration
  B) fear
  C) cowardice
  D) self-doubt
  E) condemnation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1123: 'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?'In this passage, lofty scene refers to Options:
  A) a great event
  B) the meeting of the conspirators
  C) the funeral of Caesar
  D) a scene acted on a raised platform
  E) the assassination of Caesar.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1124: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.'Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is Options:
  A) satiric
  B) affectionate
  C) indifferent
  D) sympathetic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1125:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  
  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And make me,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The lines are an example of a________?

  Options:
  A) limerick
  B) lampoon
  C) light verse
  D) light opera
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1126:

  Awonoor's 'The Anvil and the Hammer' is best described as a/an___________

  Options:
  A) free verse
  B) blank verse
  C) ode
  D) apologue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1127: In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from Options:
  A) sad complaining voices of beggars
  B) pitiful anger bowing like a tumour
  C) not listening to the dead
  D) clamouring and crying roughly over our torments
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1128:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

  Options:
  A) has little money for her
  B) condisers the trade in furmity unscrupulous
  C) thinks it is not respectable to talk to the old women
  D) has learned what she wanted from the old woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1129: This question is based on General Literacy PrinciplesAn example of a narrative poem is ________? Options:
  A) elegy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1130:

  Read the extract below and this answer question.The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of

  Dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream

  As it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.

  The underline expression in line 3 is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .