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 1321:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

  Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

  "The free bird thinks of another
  breeze / and the trade winds
  soft through the sighing trees"

  What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

  Options:
  A) It shows where the bird sleeps
  B) It shows the tree is sleeping
  C) It indicates that the bird is carefree
  D) It indicates that it is still early in the day
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1322:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'The woman whose breast I sucked is gone to the worms, 'Oculi, Orphan'. These lines illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) sadism
  B) sophism
  C) satire
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1323:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  '...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'

  What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that

  Options:
  A) Tony is in reality without a fortune
  B) Tony is not a man of consequence
  C) Marlow is too bashful and reserved
  D) Tony has not had a good breeding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1324:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofIn Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the persona addresses the dead athlete using

  Options:
  A) Monologue
  B) Dialogue
  C) Apostrophe
  D) Prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1325: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1326: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.The novel can be described as Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) persuasive
  C) pessimistic
  D) antagonistic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1327:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The attitude of the narrator to religion in the novel is

  Options:
  A) fundamentalist
  B) liberal
  C) ambiguous
  D) fanatical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1328:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is

  Options:
  A) Gozango
  B) Negtine
  C) Bernardo
  D) Hamlet
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1329: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The use of gestures to communicate in drama is known as Options:
  A) mime
  B) melodrama
  C) soliloquy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1330: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  '' We are here to die of rage! say die of rage because this time the uncircumcised have gone too far...''
  The word uncircumcised in the statement above by Nti refers to Options:
  A) Nua and Mvondo
  B) the whites
  C) the people of Doum
  D) the white farmers
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  The correct answer is B .