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 1311: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'Me to the Orangery Solitude invites, a wagtail, to tell the tangled-wood-tale.
  Christopher Okigbo: Heavensgae
  The complexity of the poem can be ascribed to the poets use of Options:
  A) archaic diction
  B) structural inversion
  C) compound words
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1312: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a Options:
  A) knife and a sword
  B) knife and gun
  C) hammer and a sickle
  D) matchet and a hammer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1313:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?

  Options:
  A) Wuthering Heights
  B) The nearby village
  C) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
  D) London, where her cousin Linton lives
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1314:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, use the excerpt below to answer question 14 and 15.

  '.... So tedious is this day

  As is the night before some festival

  To an important child that hath them.

  New robes and may not wear.

  The literary device used in the excerpt is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) Oxymoron
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1315:

  The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synecdoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1316:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'And when He looks at the grimy coating,

  Caking off your emaciated skin,...'

  These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe

  Options:
  A) the texture of the pauper's skin
  B) the coat the pauper was wearing
  C) the effect of the surroundings
  D) poverty and dirt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1317: In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if Options:
  A) the blacks forced out the whites
  B) the whites packed their bags and went away peacefully
  C) the whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks
  D) black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin
  E) unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1318:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1319:

  In The Marriage of Anansewa, to which character

  Do the following praise-names refer?

  'Oh Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin

  Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin

  Rooted in the shrine of deity

  Countless branches in which

  Benighted wandering birds

  Are welcome to shelter'

  Options:
  A) Togbe Klu IV
  B) Chief of the Mines
  C) Chief-Who-Is-Chief
  D) Chief of Sapa
  E) property Man.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1320: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  In Lawrence's Bat the poet's attitude to bat is one of Options:
  A) fear
  B) sarcasm
  C) contempt
  D) flattering
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  The correct answer is C .