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:

  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.

  Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the

  Options:
  A) relieveing effect of the song on the reaper's
  B) enduring impact of the reaper's song
  C) sweetest human voice of the poet ever heard
  D) similarity between the voice of the reaper and the cuckoo-bird
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1232:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

  Options:
  A) oppression
  B) mendacity
  C) partiality
  D) embezziement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1233:

  A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) interlude
  C) flashback
  D) foreshadowing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1234:

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

  X: What country, friends, is this?

  Y: This is lllyria, lady.

  X: And what should I do in lllyria?

  My brother he is in Elysium.

  Perchance he is not drown' d;....

  The dialogue above takes place

  Options:
  A) in the captain's ship
  B) in lllyria
  C) by the sea-coast of lllyria
  D) by the sea-coast after lllyria
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1235: 'Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour'. Brutus' words in the above lines come Options:
  A) after the conclution of the plan to kill caesar
  B) soon after his wife's insisted to know the object of his unusual brooding
  C) as part of his famous address to his fellow Romans
  D) during a brief meeting between him and Cassius on how to counter the forces of Octavius and Antony
  E) after his defeat by the forces of Octavius and Antony.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1236:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The play ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) cynicism
  B) idealism
  C) realism
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1237:

  "...Lying down in the melting snow.

  There were times we regretted

  The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

  And the silken girls bringing sherbert."The emotion evoked in this passage from "Journey of the Magi" is that of

  Options:
  A) romance
  B) nostalgia
  C) sorrow
  D) fear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1238: How many stanza and lines does William Moris' poem "the proud king" has? Options:
  A) 119 stanzas and 849 lines
  B) 109 stanzas and 849 lines
  C) 119 stanzas and 850 lines
  D) 109 stanzas and 850 lines
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1239:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'SINCE I am coming to that Holy roome,

  Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore

  I shall be made thy Musique; As I come

  I tune the Instrument here at the dore,

  And what I must doe then, thinke here before.'

  John Donne, 'hymn to God my God'

  In the stanza above, the poet recognizes that

  Options:
  A) God is his creator
  B) he is a choir master
  C) there is music in heaven
  D) he is near his death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1240:

  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 phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .