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 251: Besides describing scenes of African village night, Senghor's poem 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definiten statement about Options:
  A) communicating with dead ancestors
  B) fishermen diving into the sea
  C) technological development
  D) movement fron rural to urban centres
  E) black soldiers killed in Europe.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 252:

  'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.

  This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

  Options:
  A) taste
  B) touch
  C) sight
  D) smell
  E) hearing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 253:

  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 254: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is Options:
  A) round character
  B) stock character
  C) static character
  D) flat character
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 255:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on

  Options:
  A) showing casual connection of incidents
  B) the vivid presentation of incidents
  C) the accurate presentation of incidents
  D) narrating the truth of incidents
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 256: Brother Jero himself identifies ONE of the following as his main weakness Options:
  A) Avarice
  B) Treachery
  C) Lustfulness
  D) Self-doubt
  E) condemnation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 257:

  'No; This my hand will rather

  The multitudinous seas incarnadine

  Making the green and red .'

  In the above lines the figure of speech used is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 258:

  These question are 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; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

  Women refuse to marry?

  Woman cannot exist except by man,

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

  Options:
  A) ironical statement
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pathetic fallacy
  D) chiasmus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 259:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

  Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) mythical
  B) biblical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 260: These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.The prevailing theme of the play is Options:
  A) love
  B) social decadence
  C) self-will
  D) affluence
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  The correct answer is C .