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 1561:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by

  Options:
  A) circumlocution
  B) irony
  C) proverb
  D) parable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1562:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The stage direction at the end of the play reveals

  Options:
  A) the actors in a changing room
  B) Mama Kayode raising the song of hope
  C) Moremi and Titubi in harsh spotlight
  D) the Director making a farewell speech
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1563: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  It can be safely assumed that the novel is Options:
  A) culturally simple
  B) structurally complex
  C) naturally simple
  D) physically revlevant
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1564:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

  Kabria's second child is

  Options:
  A) Ottu
  B) Adade
  C) Essie
  D) Obea
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1565: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Romeo is evicted to__________because he__________ Options:
  A) Mantua, fights Tybalt in a street duel
  B) Capulet's party, kills Tybalt in a street duel
  C) Mantua, fights and kills Tybalt in a street duel
  D) Mantua, kills Paris in a street duel.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1566:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  The recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of

  Options:
  A) detachment
  B) immediacy
  C) alienation
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1567: The combined reactions of the plebeians after the separate speeches of Brutus and Antony show that the common man as portrayed in Julius Caesar Options:
  A) is knowledgeable, has a mind of his own, and is reable
  B) is fickle-minded, changeable and not dependable
  C) consider Caesar a tyrant and wants him killed
  D) does not consider Caesar an over- ambitious man deserving death
  E) is actually unconcerned whether Caesar dies or lives
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1568: This question is based on Ademiluyi's The New Man.
  The metamorphosis that takes place in the novel is manly due to Options:
  A) disillusionment
  B) greed and avarice
  C) love and affection
  D) selfishness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1569: "Keats" "Ode" to a Nightingale" can best be described as Options:
  A) an appreciation of nature
  B) an appreciation of the beauty of the nightingale
  C) a reflection ont he uncertainties of life
  D) a description of nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1570: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.Elliot's The Journey of the Magi could be said to examine the issues of Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) holy pilgrimage
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  The correct answer is C .