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 1231:

  These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

  Women refuse to marry?

  Woman cannot exist except by man,

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

  Options:
  A) ironical statement
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pathetic fallacy
  D) chiasmus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1232:

  Which character made the following statement in Macbeth?:

  This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

  Unto our gentle senses'

  Options:
  A) Macbeth
  B) Duncan
  C) Lady Macbeth
  D) Macduff
  E) Lennox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1233:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The dominant impression of the first person narrative in the novel gives it

  Options:
  A) an omniscient character
  B) an epistolary character
  C) a biographical character
  D) an autobiographical character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1234:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The plot of the novel is

  Options:
  A) cyclical
  B) achronological
  C) convoluted
  D) linear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1235:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is

  Options:
  A) simile and repetition
  B) rhythm and metaphor
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) repetition and personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1236: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  An interlude is a brief Options:
  A) presentation in the interval of a dramatic performance
  B) play before the main dramatic performance
  C) presentation after the main dramatic performance
  D) dialogue between two persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1237:

  What structure is poetry written in?

  Options:
  A) sentences and paragraphs
  B) sentences and stanzas
  C) lines and paragraphs
  D) lines and stanzas
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1238: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.The cap-picking ceremony is to Options:
  A) break the strong will of Yaremi
  B) make Yaremi remarry
  C) establish that she is wicked
  D) prove that Ajumobi is not the best
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1239: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native SonThe story is narrated using the Options:
  A) Omniscient
  B) limited omniscient
  C) objective
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1240:

  'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'

  These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

  Options:
  A) Iya Aburo to mesmerise her son
  B) Baba Fakunle to mesmerise his assailants
  C) Odewale to mesmerise his assailants
  D) old man to mesmerise Odewale.
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  The correct answer is C .