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 121: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 122: In David Diop's 'The Vultures', the statement 'And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howing on the plantations,' suggests that Options:
  A) music was more important than work
  B) boredom received more attention than suffering
  C) music was more pleasant than cries
  D) religion received more attention than the suffering slaves.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 123:

  "I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs.

  Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too."Based on the novel Piggy's, The split in the group of boys occurs with the departure of

  Options:
  A) Jack
  B) Ralph
  C) Roger
  D) Simon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 124:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Use the excerpt to answer this question.
  "Where light pushes through;
  A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
  A dip to the water.
  And you think:
  "The swallows are flying so late!"
  Swallows?"

  The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

  Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) imagery
  C) Alliteration
  D) Paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 125: The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is Options:
  A) suffering and oppression
  B) laughter and happiness
  C) singing and merry making
  D) love for a woman
  E) long journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 126: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary genre which directly imitates human action is Options:
  A) drama
  B) comedy
  C) prose
  D) poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 127:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'

  The play is mostly written in

  Options:
  A) free verse
  B) metres
  C) foot
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 128:

  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.

  In my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

  Options:
  A) indiscriminate love and admiration
  B) unrestrained blushing
  C) officious fool
  D) intermitent smiles
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 129:

  "Rather than so, come fate, into the list,

  And champion me to the utterance!"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to

  Options:
  A) Macbeth's fear of not being king
  B) Banqou's children becoming kings
  C) Macduff defeating Macbeth on the battle field
  D) Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 130:

  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 .