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 31: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.According to the highest estimate, how many ships in the Turkish fleet were said to head for the Island of Cyprus? Options:
  A) 107
  B) 230
  C) 200
  D) 140
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 32:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

  In Rubadiri's 'Stanley Meets Mutesa' the king receives the explorer with

  Options:
  A) suspicion
  B) delight
  C) optimism
  D) relief
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 33:

  A novel written in form of a letter is said to be_______

  Options:
  A) gothic
  B) biographical
  C) epistolary
  D) autobiographical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 34: ''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.The passage achieve realism through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) the long sentence
  D) the past tense
  E) punctuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 35:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  Brutus'A Troubadour I Traverse paints the picture of

  Options:
  A) peace amidst pestilence
  B) love in a hostile environment
  C) hatred inspired by state terror
  D) hunger in the midst of plenty
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 36: Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled? Options:
  A) A climatic episode
  B) An impersonal dramatic piece
  C) An allusive dialogue
  D) A love story told by balled singer
  E) A poem that tells a folk story
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 37:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

  Shall my pilot be

  My inborn stars to that

  Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

  Options:
  A) burlesque
  B) rhetoric
  C) passion
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 38:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a

  Options:
  A) horse
  B) piece of land
  C) source of water
  D) farmland
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 39:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) limerick
  C) tercet
  D) wit
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 40: Based on Ferdinand Oyono's the Old Man and the Medal, for his sacrifices to the church, Meka gets Options:
  A) a place near an aged leper
  B) a land to build a new house
  C) appointed into the church elders' council
  D) the privilegde to choose a permanent place to sit
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  The correct answer is C .