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 1811:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) diary
  B) novel
  C) novella
  D) short story
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1812:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The Bala is symbolically referred to as a fox because of his

  Options:
  A) mental powess
  B) sexual powess
  C) physical powess
  D) royalty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1813:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles. With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,

  And purple-stained mouth,'

  John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The above lines are an example of

  Options:
  A) tautology
  B) comic relief
  C) euphemism
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1814:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse........Their eyes recede from tomorrow.

  No sense of mission sustains them.'

  These lines from Odia Of Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals express

  Options:
  A) a longing for the past
  B) a lack of grogress
  C) the weight of tradition
  D) an impatient attitude
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1815:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

  The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  Options:
  A) contempt and admiration
  B) hatred and pity
  C) contempt and disregard
  D) disregard and pity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1816:

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

  The image of Beelzebub in the novel effectively captures the character of

  Options:
  A) Simon
  B) Ralph
  C) Bill
  D) Jack
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1817:

  ''Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind" illustrates_________

  Options:
  A) inversion
  B) paradox
  C) humor
  D) mood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1818: 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.In ''Hurrah For Thunder'', the poet uses the image of the jungle to comment on his country''s lack of Options:
  A) civilization
  B) cleanliness
  C) order
  D) leadership
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1819:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

  Options:
  A) fertilization of the earth by moisture
  B) loss of man's property
  C) seasonal flow of nature
  D) happy beginning and sad end of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1820: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as Options:
  A) characterization
  B) allegory
  C) metaphor
  D) paralellism
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  The correct answer is B .