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 221:

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

  Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?

  Options:
  A) Comic and absurd
  B) Stupid and simplistic
  C) Pompous and spontaneous
  D) Decisive and bold
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 222: In 'Nuit de Sine,'the word 'dark' in 'listern to our dark blood beat' is used Options:
  A) figuratively
  B) scientifically
  C) literally
  D) imaginatively
  E) culturally
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 223:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

  Options:
  A) regression
  B) cadence
  C) rhyme
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 224:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'

  In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) hyperbole
  C) alliteration
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 225:

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

  The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) insanity
  B) wickedness
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 226:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A couplet refers to

  Options:
  A) two successive lines of rhyming verse
  B) two stanzas that cannot stand alone
  C) four irregular verses in stanzas
  D) poetry that is actd on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 227: In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could Options:
  A) become pagans
  B) appreciate the beauty of Nature more
  C) go to see Proteus and Triton
  D) become part of Nation
  E) give their 'hearts aways
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 228: As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was Options:
  A) worthwhile
  B) uncertain
  C) foolish
  D) wise
  E) commendable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 229: Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of Options:
  A) repetition of symbolic references
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) exaggeration
  D) flowering language.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 230: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary genre which directly imitates human action is Options:
  A) drama
  B) comedy
  C) prose
  D) poetry
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  The correct answer is A .