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 1511: "Behold her, single in the field
  You solitary Highland Lass!
  Reaping and singing, by herself
  Stop here, or gently pass!
  Alone she cuts and blinds the gram,
  And sings a melancholy strain,
  O listen! For the Vale profound
  Is overflowing with the sound.
  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of The Solitary Reaper above is Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) alxabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1512: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when Options:
  A) his wife gives birth to female twins
  B) he is recruited into the army
  C) Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study abroad
  D) he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his inlaw
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1513:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1514:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1515: In Soyinka's 'Abiku', the statement, 'The ripest fruit was saddest', is an example of Options:
  A) metaphysical conceit
  B) equivocation
  C) slasng
  D) a paradox
  E) a proverb
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1516:

  'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.

  'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'

  'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is

  Options:
  A) love
  B) sympathetic understanding
  C) contempt
  D) respect
  E) difference.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1517: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1518: 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 1519:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  The speaker above is referring to

  Options:
  A) Hannah and George
  B) Aaron and Maanan
  C) Lawyer B and Mrs. B
  D) Fosuwa and Maidservant
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1520:

  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 .