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 1271:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1272: Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot's Sill Marner is one of Options:
  A) contempt
  B) fear
  C) sympathy
  D) hatred
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1273:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  Henchard arranged a meeting with Susan that the Ring instead of in his house because

  Options:
  A) the Ring was a meeting-warden for lovers
  B) the Ring was a spot for appointments of furtive kind
  C) Susan was ashamed to come over to his house
  D) his reputation as the church-warden and mayor was at stake
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1274:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.

  Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'

  The character in the poem above is obviously a

  Options:
  A) veteran
  B) prisoner
  C) mercenary
  D) refugee
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1275:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Lineation refers to

  Options:
  A) tracing family descent of poeple in verse
  B) the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
  C) the arrangement of lines in verse from
  D) the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1276: 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) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1277:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
  "for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

  The poetic device used in this expression is____

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) irony
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1278: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression? Options:
  A) Octet
  B) Lyric
  C) Sonnet
  D) Elegy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1279: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  It can be safely assumed that the novel is Options:
  A) culturally simple
  B) structurally complex
  C) naturally simple
  D) physically revlevant
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1280:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

  Options:
  A) has little money for her
  B) condisers the trade in furmity unscrupulous
  C) thinks it is not respectable to talk to the old women
  D) has learned what she wanted from the old woman
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  The correct answer is A .