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 1441:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky

  That coin will flutter But the eagle will never fly.'

  Henry Dumas: America

  The poem above achieves its literary effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) parallelism
  C) repetition
  D) solecism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1442:

  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 .
• Question 1443:

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

  By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that

  Options:
  A) life is valueless
  B) drinking is disastrous
  C) Henchard is unpredictable
  D) cruelty is part of life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1444:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1445:

  ... a didactic poem, especially such with animals as characters may be distinctively described as a/an_________

  Options:
  A) Romance
  B) gothic poem
  C) limerick
  D) apologue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1446:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeare's OTHELLO

  "O heaven; How got she out?
  O treason of the blood!
  Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
  By what you see them act. Is there not charms
  By which the property of youth and maid-hood
  May be abused?

  The speaker of the excerpt above is________

  Options:
  A) Brabantio
  B) Othello
  C) Gratiano
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1447:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  Options:
  A) a spondee
  B) a trochee
  C) an anapest
  D) an iamb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1448: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Prospero is portrayed as a man who is Options:
  A) eager to conquer the world
  B) full of mistrust for everybody
  C) more interested in studying than in governance
  D) dependent on the spirits of his survival
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1449: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) consonance.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1450:

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) terror
  C) horror
  D) frustration
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  The correct answer is B .