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 1141:

  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 persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as

  Options:
  A) a perfectly realistic representation of the Duchess
  B) not quite capturing the Duchess emotions
  C) his most highly prized item
  D) something he is willing to pay dowry for
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1142:

  'The dun dun of a drum' is an example of an__________

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) assonance
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1143: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1144:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  There is a predominance of words associated with________

  Options:
  A) governance
  B) nature
  C) nurture
  D) celebration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1145:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) diary
  B) novel
  C) novella
  D) short story
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1146: Kongi's harvest is Options:
  A) a political drama
  B) social comedy
  C) a play about natural rulers
  D) a historical tragedy
  E) a domestic comedy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1147:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A melodramatic play is based on

  Options:
  A) a melodious manipulation of events
  B) ingredients that mllow down events
  C) sensational plot and characters
  D) the playwright's didactic overtones
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1148: In The Narrow Path Nani is transferred very frequently because he is Options:
  A) a trained teacher
  B) an untrained teacher
  C) a lazy worker
  D) a devoted and hardworking teacher
  E) a poor man's son
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1149: Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' can be seen as Options:
  A) total condemnation of human life
  B) lament for the death of the great and powerful
  C) an attack on social inequality
  D) a criticism of the poor and the unambitious
  E) a recognition of the poor and simple life.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1150: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A short and witty remark is Options:
  A) a limerick
  B) a tercet
  C) an eptgram
  D) a litotes
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  The correct answer is C .