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 1461: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The hoe is her barber'
  The line above is an example of Options:
  A) mtaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) personification
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1462:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  
  The run-on lines convey the speaker's_______

  Options:
  A) lamentation
  B) disappointment
  C) defiance
  D) indignation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1463: In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is Options:
  A) Ma Plank
  B) Leah
  C) Eliza
  D) Lena
  E) Maisy.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1464:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) a ballad
  C) an elegy
  D) a pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1465:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that morns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) beeaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1466: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Eugene Achike in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a tough retired soldier
  B) a soft and gentle husband
  C) an uncompromising traditionalist
  D) a fanatical Catholic adherent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1467:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  One rhyme scheme typical of the English sonnet is

  Options:
  A) abab cdcd cdedce
  B) abba abba cde cde
  C) abba abba cde dce
  D) abab cdcd efef gg
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1468:

  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.

  Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' can be interpreted as

  Options:
  A) a defence of the underprivileged
  B) an apology for the affluent
  C) a song of sorrow
  D) a reaction against labour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1469:

  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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

  Options:
  A) disease, illness and death
  B) aristocracy, affluence and wealth
  C) poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
  D) greed aristocracy and the ambitious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1470:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) caricature
  C) burlesque
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is C .