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 1591:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool, unruly sun,

  Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun RisingFrom the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

  Options:
  A) illumination after darkness
  B) an unnecessary evil
  C) a necessary evil
  D) a light provider
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1592: 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 1593: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The lines depict James as a Options:
  A) traditionalist
  B) christian
  C) pagan
  D) muslim
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1594: In a play denouement is the Options:
  A) entry of the central character
  B) development of the central conflict
  C) introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
  D) climatic point in the development of the plot
  E) the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1595:

  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.

  John Keats' 'Old on a Grecian Urn' expresses the idea that

  Options:
  A) the Grecian Urn is ancient
  B) the Grecian Urn is mysterious
  C) every work of art is beautiful
  D) life is long, art is longer
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1596:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: 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 in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofIn Houseman's To an Athlete Dying Young, the persona addresses the dead athlete using

  Options:
  A) Monologue
  B) Dialogue
  C) Apostrophe
  D) Prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1597: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
  The sound device used in the extract above is Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) emphasis
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1598:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.

  In the wrong skin.

  Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.

  The passage above expresses the state of mind of

  Options:
  A) an alienated man
  B) an adventurer
  C) a renegade soldir
  D) a prisoner
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1599:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',

  E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'

  In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

  Options:
  A) cannibalism
  B) monstrosity
  C) evil
  D) doom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1600: Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he Options:
  A) paid the largest dowry
  B) showed the greatest love for her
  C) bribed property man
  D) was a friend of Anansewa's father
  E) paid her school fees.
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  The correct answer is B .