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 21:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'You are the cold nests

  In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'

  Kittobbe: To the Childless

  The device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) imagery
  C) metaphor
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 22: This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse. The major theme of Thomas Gray''s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is that death renders life Options:
  A) meaningless for the rich
  B) meaningful for the poor
  C) meaningless for all
  D) meaningful for all
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 23:

  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 24: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 25: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as Options:
  A) satire
  B) paradox
  C) hyperbole
  D) epigram.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 26:

  A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

  Options:
  A) Drama
  B) comedy
  C) Prose
  D) Poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 27:

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

  Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

  To cook and scrub

  To bring forth children by the gross

  Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

  What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

  Options:
  A) Good kissing habit
  B) Formal education
  C) Racial and sexual equality
  D) Church wedding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 28:

  'A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother's hut and tears stood in his eyes.'

  The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

  Options:
  A) death of Unoka
  B) killing of Ikemefuna
  C) exiling of Okonkwo
  D) transfer of Mr. Brown
  E) imprisonment of Okonkwo.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 29:

  "O Julius Caesar, thou are mighty yet

  Thy spirit walks abroad."Based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the statement above is

  Options:
  A) a ghost story
  B) superstition
  C) an apostrophe
  D) an exaggeration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 30:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at comp"
  The device used in the line above is__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Pun
  C) Metaphor
  D) Paradox
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  The correct answer is A .