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 1531: This question is based on General Literary Principles.An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is Options:
  A) pathos
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) props
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1532: 'The Fence' (Lenrie Peters) is a Options:
  A) lyrical poem which celebrates the beauty of fences
  B) dramatic poem in which the poet demostrates how to overcome problems
  C) moral poem which deals with the poet's dilemma
  D) free verse which teaches us how to sit on the fence
  E) free verse which says sitting on the fence is admirable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1533:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

  Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

  Options:
  A) exploit
  B) frustration
  C) danger
  D) pain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1534:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) theme
  B) plot
  C) structure
  D) setting
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1535:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Poor bastard,

  Dumped on the ground to make room

  For his nocturnal fathers,

  Or on the mat to spend his horrid nights

  Among the steaming pots of food

  And walking rats.'

  ''The Bastard'' by B.S. Tibenderana

  The picture presented above is one of

  Options:
  A) loneliness
  B) hunger
  C) desolation
  D) squalor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1536:

  A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1537: Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on Options:
  A) actual historical records
  B) plutarch's lives
  C) Greek mythology
  D) John Bunyan's lives.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1538:

  ''Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind" illustrates_________

  Options:
  A) inversion
  B) paradox
  C) humor
  D) mood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1539:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'On the sand hill her footprints Gleam like a prisoner's chain

  The lines above from Mohan Singh's .

  'A village girl' suggest the girl's

  Options:
  A) firmness of bearing
  B) slow movement
  C) difficult in walking
  D) psychedelic movement
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1540:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of

  Options:
  A) herselfas the parent of a nameless child
  B) the world's concern about her breaking social law
  C) herself as a spouseless mother
  D) her inexperience in childcare
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  The correct answer is B .