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 271:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  The leaves are withered. Roses fold and shrink

  Dog, the panting athlete shows his tongue A dwarled shadow flees. Hides under legs. Nuts

  Wrinkle and crack

  'Poems in Four Parts' by W.Kamera

  One dominant image presented in the poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) spent life
  B) summer
  C) death
  D) tiredness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 272: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as Options:
  A) assonance
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 273:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 274: In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about Options:
  A) what he actually witnessed
  B) an imaginary event
  C) what he read about in the pspers
  D) what the prison wader told him
  E) what everyone knows.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 275:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who remains unchanged in a work of art is called

  Options:
  A) a stereotypic character
  B) a flat character
  C) a round character
  D) an illusive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 276:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

  Options:
  A) making us more conscious of the earth
  B) beautifying the experience the poem describes
  C) accusing us of human insensitivity
  D) enhancing the imagery of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 277: All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's Options:
  A) cleverness
  B) versatility
  C) moral weakness
  D) romatic disposition
  E) evil nature
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 278:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'We have come to the crossroads

  And I must either leave or come with you

  I lingered over the choice

  But in the darkness of my doubts

  You lifted the lamp of love

  And I saw in your face

  The road that I should take',

  'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew

  The poem ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) indecision
  B) despair
  C) hope
  D) determination
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 279:

  The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,

  The vapors weep their burden to the ground,

  Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,

  And after many a summer dies the swan.

  The theme of these lines is

  Options:
  A) the falling of leaves
  B) the ground on which the leaves fall
  C) man as a farmer
  D) the power of death over every life
  E) the flight of birds in certain reasons
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 280:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .