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 General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.'

  We will grieve not, rather find

  Strength in what remains behind',....

  'Ode- Intimations of Immorality

  By William Worthsworth

  The above lines convey a sense of

  Options:
  A) dejection
  B) uneasy acceptance
  C) deep distress
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1132: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1133:

  'Clothes were like tattered flags

  Flying off

  To expose dangling breasts

  As jaggered blinding flashes

  Rumble, tremble, and crack

  Amidst the smell of fired smoke

  And the pelting march of the storm'The general atmosphere portrayed in the above passage is one of

  Options:
  A) peace and quiet
  B) contentment and calm
  C) anger and anxiety
  D) commotion and confusion
  E) poverty and want
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1134:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

  I summon up remembrance of things past,...

  Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

  The lines above contain the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) a motif
  B) irony
  C) sarcasm
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1135: This question is based on Literary AppreciationIf I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice... Is meal Heron:Pardon me.The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of Options:
  A) plagiarism
  B) anaphora
  C) paralipsis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1136:

  'We are all diseas'd,

  And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,

  Have brought ourselves into a burning fever

  And we must bleed for it'.

  The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

  Options:
  A) fun
  B) ill heath
  C) carelessness
  D) sacrifice
  E) dicting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1137:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  The character in the novel who best symbolizes man's pride in his ability to reason is

  Options:
  A) Henry
  B) Maurice
  C) Piggy
  D) Roger
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1138:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1139:

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

  For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

  Options:
  A) taste raw and black pepper
  B) sleep in solitary cell
  C) drink a bowl of garri
  D) pay a fine of ten shillings
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1140:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

  And laid my honour too unchary on it',

  There's something in me that

  Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

  A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) Metaphor
  C) Litotes
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .