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 1861: The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is Options:
  A) suffering and oppression
  B) laughter and happiness
  C) singing and merry making
  D) love for a woman
  E) long journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1862: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) tetrametre
  C) assonance
  D) caesura
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1863:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epitaph
  B) anaphora
  C) tautology
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1864:

  "Rays of sun peepingthrough the cloud", the line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Apostrophe
  D) Personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1865:

  'He glanced at his bitten nails, and with his chin resting on his knees, said, 'well, i ask them to let me go below to visit my pa in the cell. they feel sorry for me, and say its okay. So i go down to see him, this man what made my ma's life a misery like hell, and who never had a word for me, and did nothing but give me the belt'.

  From what he says, the kid in this passage

  Options:
  A) loves his father
  B) dislikes his father
  C) disowns his father
  D) feels sorry for his father
  E) is proud of his father.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1866:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1867: Point out the odd item in this list Options:
  A) Romeo and Juliet
  B) Ozidi
  C) Tom Sawyer
  D) A Raisin in the Sun
  E) Kongi's Harvest
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1868:

  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.

  In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) love
  C) sadness
  D) scorn
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1869: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1870: In Kongi's Harvest, there is a struggle for power between Kongi and Options:
  A) Daudo
  B) Oba Danlola
  C) Segi's father
  D) the Aweri fraternity
  E) the people
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  The correct answer is B .