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 1201:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  DUKE:... Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul. What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

  Options:
  A) The book of his relationship with Olivia
  B) The secret of his soul
  C) The details of his relationship with Viola
  D) The details of his relationship with Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1202:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1203:

  'There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's lives!'

  The speaker uses a string of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) parables
  C) metaphors
  D) riddles
  E) understatements.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1204:

  This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

  After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to

  Options:
  A) get in touch with his relation immediately
  B) hide in the bush for one day and later contact Laoye Layeni
  C) hide in the bush for one week and later contact Sade
  D) contact his friends who arrange his movement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1205:

  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.

  In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) double rhymes
  C) assonance
  D) end rhymes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1206:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  To stop himself from cutting off the sound in anger the man turned and just watched the fan, only just then another feeble, useless movement would happen and blades would be drawn through another arc. Only a long hour later did the noise finally stop - 4:30p.m

  A.K Amah. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  In this passage, the writer

  Options:
  A) creates a mood of suspense
  B) enhances an oppressive atmosphere
  C) describes the man's anger
  D) captures the man's habitual impatience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1207:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

  Options:
  A) noble character with hubris
  B) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortunes
  C) king with deep affection for his subjects
  D) central character after whom the play is named
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1208:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The madman has entered our house with violence

  Defiling our sacred grounds

  Claiming the single truth of the universe

  Bending down our high priests with iron,'

  Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'

  The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of

  Options:
  A) coercion
  B) religiousity
  C) truth
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1209:

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) terror
  C) horror
  D) frustration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1210: This question is based on Literary.Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in BiafraThe speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of Options:
  A) admiration
  B) condemnation
  C) spite
  D) respect
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  The correct answer is C .