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 1301: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1302:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  OKORO: I'll kill her today.

  IDAMA: No, you won't. There, run, Koko, oh,

  I say run![He pushes her gently but

  firmly towards her room]

  The event above happens in

  Options:
  A) lyara when Okoro discovrs Koko's infidelity
  B) Erhuwaren whn Koko suspects and accuses her husband
  C) Erhuwaren when Okoro suspects Koko of infidelity
  D) Erhuwaren before Koko's return from lyara
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1303:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the arena

  They began to sing my song,

  We could hear it faintly

  Passing through the air'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  What is the figure of speech used in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Irony
  C) Personification
  D) Simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1304: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption (ACP Yakubu in his office)... How can that old crook of a Judge acquit and discharge a very clear case of cocaine pushing. What evidence is he looking for?...' The technique used in the excerpt above is called Options:
  A) interior monologue
  B) apostrophe
  C) dramatic monologue
  D) soliloquoy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1305:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) abuse
  B) condemn
  C) praise
  D) elaborate
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1306:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'

  The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  C) Mr. Good Country's son
  D) Jesus Christ
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1307:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

  And laid my honour too unchary on it',

  There's something in me that

  Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

  A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) Metaphor
  C) Litotes
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1308:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!

  You are my mortal enemy'.

  The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) allusion
  C) apostrophe
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1309: Dramatic irony entails Options:
  A) a statement that means more than is evident to its maker
  B) a hilarious statement
  C) satirical comment
  D) a sarcastic announcement
  E) praise of the audience.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1310:

  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.

  In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is

  Options:
  A) a snob
  B) a coquette
  C) a spendthrift
  D) disrespectful
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  The correct answer is D .