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 1131:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'You are the cold nests

  In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'

  Kittobbe: To the Childless

  The device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) imagery
  C) metaphor
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1132: In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as Options:
  A) welcome and totally pleasant
  B) unwelcome and unpleasant
  C) dangerous and uninviting
  D) seductive and threatening
  E) beautiful and wholesome.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1133: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1134:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1135:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'And in spite of everything, in the soft cradle of her heart, there was another baby forming'.

  What baby is being referred to in the above statement?

  Options:
  A) The stillborn
  B) The reunion of Li and Habu
  C) Li's expected baby
  D) The meeting of Shuwa and her father
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1136:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent

  I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's

  Fluorescence, dance on the pulse

  Incessant. Wole Soyinka:Night

  The lines above suggests that women are

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) seers
  C) magicians
  D) covetous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1137:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1138:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A quatrain is

  Options:
  A) the last line of a poem
  B) the fourth line of a sonnet
  C) a poem which ends with a question
  D) a stanza consisting of four lines
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1139:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In literary work, setting refers to the

  Options:
  A) starting point of the story
  B) sum total of physical, social and historical circumstances
  C) orderly arrangement of episodes
  D) point at which the fortunes of the hero begin to decline
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1140:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) ballad
  C) tercet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is C .