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 1831:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1832:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I am alone

  And the murmur of my lips

  Carry song and tears homewards

  From a plain away from home

  Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

  Options:
  A) elation
  B) anger
  C) nostaglgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1833:

  'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
  And whisper to their souls, to go
  Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
  The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'
  John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

  The tone of this poem is generally

  Options:
  A) conversational
  B) imaginative
  C) serious
  D) appreciative
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1834:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an irregular verse
  C) an address
  D) a free verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1835:

  This question is on Literary Appreciation

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'

  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) derisive
  B) ironic
  C) melancholic
  D) harsh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1836: She unpacked the novels she had brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale.
  This character may be best described as a woman Options:
  A) of habit
  B) of poor means
  C) of wide literary interest
  D) With poor memory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1837:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

  Options:
  A) scenes
  B) dialogue
  C) soliloquy
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1838:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

  The literary device used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) climax
  C) epigram
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1839: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as Options:
  A) frustrated and pensive
  B) gay and elated
  C) melancholic and sentimental
  D) dreamy and hopeful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1840:

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

  'I' ll do my best

  To woo your lady.'

  What is the sincere desire of the person who made the statement above?

  Options:
  A) That she succeeds in winning the love for the master
  B) That her best is good enough to win affection
  C) That she herself becomes the beloved
  D) That she herself wins the love
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  The correct answer is C .