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 1551:

  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.

  The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is

  Options:
  A) an aristocrats's marital problems
  B) the pitfalls of a duchess now dead
  C) an ambassador's personal life
  D) the pride and arrogance of an aristocrat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1552:

  'They are as fearsome as they are fearless' is an example of______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) pun
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1553: How many stanza and lines does William Moris' poem "the proud king" has? Options:
  A) 119 stanzas and 849 lines
  B) 109 stanzas and 849 lines
  C) 119 stanzas and 850 lines
  D) 109 stanzas and 850 lines
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1554:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Bigger kills Mary due to______?

  Options:
  A) Fear
  B) Hatred
  C) Envy
  D) Distrust
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1555: 'Nkosi Sikekela' in Brutus' 'After Exile', refers to a Options:
  A) general in the Zulu army
  B) Zulu song used as national anthem by Africans south of Zanbezi
  C) soldier in the Zulu army
  D) Zulu poem
  E) Zulu poet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1556: A question put, not chiefly to elicit an answer, but to make an emphatic statement is known as Options:
  A) paradoxial
  B) metaphysical
  C) logical
  D) rhetorical
  E) leading
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1557:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A statement whose meaning is contrary to that openly expressed is an example of

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) oxymoron
  C) irony
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1558:

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

  'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird

  The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.

  But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.

  Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  Options:
  A) Koomson
  B) Oyo
  C) The man
  D) Teacher
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1559:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.I am not afraid of anything he told them.

  I have done almost everything in this world.I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most them.I have been in prison more hours than i have been out of it within the last five years.

  In recounting his criminal life,the speaker's tone is

  Options:
  A) regretful
  B) subdued
  C) repentant
  D) boastful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1560: Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
  The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) Sadness
  B) anxiety
  C) anger
  D) nonchalance
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  The correct answer is B .