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 1781:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The most important concepts in poetry are:

  Options:
  A) story and action
  B) plot and rhythm
  C) rhythm and imagery
  D) plot and character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1782: These question are 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; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm can be described as Options:
  A) traditional
  B) satiritical
  C) didactic
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1783:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

  'Wisely and slow. The stumble that run fast'.

  This note of caution comes from

  Options:
  A) Benvolio to Mercutio
  B) Capulet to Paris
  C) Friar to Romeo
  D) Nurse to Juliet.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1784:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  Yon solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;

  Stop here, or gently pass!

  Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,

  And sings a melancholy strain;

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is

  Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) abcabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1785:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that morns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) beeaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1786:

  A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called

  Options:
  A) tetrametre
  B) rhythm
  C) caesura
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1787: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synedoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1788:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for

  Options:
  A) four months
  B) five months
  C) two months
  D) three months
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1789:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

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  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1790: In Julius Caesar, one occasion when the misunderstanding of the ordinary people of Rome caused a big problem was Options:
  A) at the capitol when Caesar was given a crown
  B) at the capitol when Brutus and Antony addressed the Romans
  C) at the battlefield when Brutus attacked the army of octavius
  D) in the streets of Rome when Cinna the poet was killed.
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  The correct answer is B .