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 111:

  This is my letter to the world

  That never wrote to me

  The simple news that Nature told

  With tender majestyHer message is committed

  To hands I cannot see;

  For love of her, sweet countrymen

  Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

  Options:
  A) majesty
  B) world
  C) tender
  D) Nature
  E) the poet's sister
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 112:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 113:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I am alone

  And the murmur of my lips

  Carry song and tears homewards

  From a plain away from home

  Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

  Options:
  A) elation
  B) anger
  C) nostaglgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 114:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationAnd your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

  From the poem above, SHADOW means

  Options:
  A) bleak future
  B) period of suffering
  C) abstract ideas
  D) famine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 115: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synedoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 116: In literary devices, pun deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 117:

  These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.'yet in their finger upon Our navel

  The midwives of the spirit say

  They feel a foetal throb.

  The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs'in the Navel of the soul is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) enjambment
  C) rhythm
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 118: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A fable is a story in which Options:
  A) allegations are made about characters
  B) animals or things are used as characters
  C) there is an important setting
  D) the story is told in poetic form
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 119:

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!
  You are my mortal enemy'

  The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

  Options:
  A) allusion
  B) an ode
  C) metaphor
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 120: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.The character attributes of Attahiru qualify him as Options:
  A) an egocentric partriot
  B) a Muslim fanatic
  C) a religious martyr
  D) a political revolutionary
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  The correct answer is B .