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 361:

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

  'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's

  'Snake' refers to

  Options:
  A) culture
  B) primitive instincts
  C) the hissing sound of a snake
  D) someone whispering to himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 362: These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.The final harassment of Maanan takes place in Options:
  A) Ofosu's office
  B) Lawyer B's chamber
  C) Ofosu's house
  D) Lawyer B's house
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 363:

  'To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
  And eternity in an hour'
  - William Blake
  To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
  The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) paradox
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 364:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'

  Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The terseness of the prose above is employed to

  Options:
  A) capture a climax
  B) depict tension
  C) condemn the man
  D) sympathize with the girl
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 365:

  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.

  ' ... In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?'

  In Keats ' Ode on a Grecian Urn', the recurrent use of the rhetorical question in the lines above suggests

  Options:
  A) admiration and amazement
  B) confusion and fear
  C) shock and surprie
  D) worry and sadness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 366: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 367:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The dominant images in the novel are those of

  Options:
  A) death and time
  B) filth and time
  C) death and decay
  D) filth and decay
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 368: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 369:

  Use the lines below to answer these two questions.A cursing rogue with a merry fảrce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crutch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) abab
  B) bbaa
  C) abba
  D) aabb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 370: What we call 'tragic flaw' is the Options:
  A) element of plot that makes a work dramatic
  B) typographical error occuring in a work of drama
  C) pronunciation error made by an actor on stage
  D) unsuccessful play written by an other wise great dramatist
  E) weakness in character responsible for the downfall of a dramatic hero.
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  The correct answer is E .