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 1961: "And blossoms blown away"
  The line above from William Blake's poem " The school boy" is an example of Options:
  A) personification
  B) euphemism
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1962:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which

  Options:
  A) the serious is treated in a satirical way
  B) subordination of characterization to plot occurs
  C) music and dance predominate
  D) evil triumphs over good
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1963:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1964: In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa Options:
  A) a black and white should live and develop separately
  B) racial harmony is desirable and possible
  C) black should never cooperate with white
  D) racial harmony is merewishful thinking
  E) the conflict between black and white can never end.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1965: These qustion is 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning due..."The excerpt above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of Options:
  A) simile
  B) anaphora
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1966:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You Kiss her on the cheek

  As white people do,

  You Kiss her open-sore lips

  As white people do,

  You suck slimy saliva

  From each other's mouths,

  As white people do.'

  Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'

  The writer of the lines above uses repetition

  Options:
  A) for emphasis
  B) to underscore disapproval
  C) to enhance irony
  D) for imitation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1967:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.'

  William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) assonance
  C) metaphor
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1968: Which of the following statements best describes comedy Options:
  A) A play in which no body dies
  B) A play which makes us laugh
  C) play in which the hero is a clown
  D) a play which end happily
  E) a play which is not boring.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1969: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.Kufi is a Options:
  A) Christian community
  B) pagan society
  C) Muslim community
  D) traditional society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1970:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.

  Options:
  A) vague and prosaic.
  B) prosaic and poetic.
  C) archanic and vague.
  D) ambiguous and lyrical
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  The correct answer is B .