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 1641:

  These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.'yet in their finger upon Our navel

  The midwives of the spirit say

  They feel a foetal throb.

  The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs'in the Navel of the soul is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) enjambment
  C) rhythm
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1642: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1643: Who succeeded Othello as Governor of Cyprus? Options:
  A) Cassio
  B) Lago
  C) Montano
  D) Gratiano
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1644:

  "The officer, surrounded by these noises,

  Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

  To give them time to pull themselves together, and

  Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

  In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

  Options:
  A) sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
  B) contrast between savagery and order
  C) inability of the children to organize themselves
  D) children's emotional state and its consequences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1645:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  In literary convention, 'aside' is used to

  Options:
  A) make a pointed remark
  B) emphasize scenes as different from acts
  C) distinguish between events
  D) gossip about other characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1646:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1647: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1648: Which of the following terms is exclusive to drama? Options:
  A) Dialogue
  B) Plot
  C) Protagonist
  D) Soliloguy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1649: The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by Options:
  A) T.S Eliot
  B) William Shakespeare
  C) William Wordsworth
  D) Wole Soyinka
  E) W.B Yeats.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1650:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..

  Joseph Conrald: Nostromo

  The passage above describes a troop of

  Options:
  A) cows
  B) elephants
  C) camels
  D) horses
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  The correct answer is D .