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 281:

  Brutus: This is sleepy tune. O murd'rous slumber!

  Layest thou the leaden mace upon my boy,

  That plays the music? Gentle knave, good night.

  'Gentle knave' refers to

  Options:
  A) Lucius
  B) Cassius
  C) Portia
  D) Messala
  E) Lucuis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 282:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

  Options:
  A) is an accomplished lady
  B) is from a very god family
  C) understands farm life
  D) is a good Christian
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 283:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

  The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

  Options:
  A) dance and songs
  B) flashback.
  C) foreshadowing
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 284:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The setting of T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) coldness
  B) confusion
  C) faiety
  D) warmth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 285: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust...
  Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters
  The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) visual
  C) tactile
  D) auditory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 286:

  "... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: Casualties"

  The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Personification
  C) Synecdoche
  D) Metonymy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 287:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____

  Options:
  A) is a virgin
  B) has a wealthy family
  C) is of marriageable age
  D) is free from her family
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 288: 'The Fence' (Lenrie Peters) is a Options:
  A) lyrical poem which celebrates the beauty of fences
  B) dramatic poem in which the poet demostrates how to overcome problems
  C) moral poem which deals with the poet's dilemma
  D) free verse which teaches us how to sit on the fence
  E) free verse which says sitting on the fence is admirable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 289:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  What is the source of Aissatou's success in life?

  Options:
  A) Vengeance
  B) Feminine courage
  C) Social connections
  D) Luck
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 290:

  "Will college make you a better Olokun

  Priest?

  Will it make you serve our ancestors

  Better?

  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-

  Hearted priest

  Of Olokun. Did I go to college?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .