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 1251: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In the novel, it is necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of the safety of her child
  B) of her love for Agbadi
  C) her father is dead
  D) that is the tradition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1252:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1253:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'America! there it lay, handy and tantalizing, allheat and scurry. All morning they had kept catching glimpses of it beyond the potholes as they stood in long lines, waiting to reach the tables where the immigration men in dacrion shirts checked their visas, inspected the X-ray pictures of their lungs that they held in their hands, decided whether to admit them or not. Getting into America was, it seemed, quite as hard as getting into heaven; and the trouble was... that as with heaven one couldn't know whether one would like it when one got there'.

  The picture of America presented in this passage is that of a place

  Options:
  A) of unknown and uncertain qualities
  B) choked with red tape
  C) as inviting as heaven itself
  D) off-putting on account of the heat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1254:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that morns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) beeaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1255:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,

  These oily tears

  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

  Will one day be staunched,

  I swear!

  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) supplicatory
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1256:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) terror
  B) horror
  C) frustration
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1257:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1258: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1259:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...

  I have never know you but your blood flows in my veins

  Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....

  David Diop, Africa'

  In the lines above, Diop uses

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1260: These questions are based on general Literary principlesIn drama drama dramaturge is he who Options:
  A) writes or edits plays
  B) directs a play
  C) acts a film
  D) features in a play
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  The correct answer is A .