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 391:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.I am not afraid of anything he told them.

  I have done almost everything in this world.I have committed all crimes you can think of and been jailed for most them.I have been in prison more hours than i have been out of it within the last five years.

  In recounting his criminal life,the speaker's tone is

  Options:
  A) regretful
  B) subdued
  C) repentant
  D) boastful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 392:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'

  The image in the lines above in Morris'

  The Proud King is

  Options:
  A) auditory
  B) gustatory
  C) tactile
  D) visual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 393:

  Chansonis a term denoting a

  Options:
  A) popular Korean verse
  B) Song from the middle Ages
  C) Form of love song
  D) poem of Varied Metrical forms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 394:

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metonymy
  C) metaphor
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 395:

  ... may be said to be a critical subject of concern in Blake's "School Boy"

  Options:
  A) adventurism
  B) futility of life and time
  C) moral rectitude
  D) academic development
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 396:

  'He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.

  He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside'.

  What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer's use of

  Options:
  A) imagery
  B) simile
  C) details
  D) uncommon words
  E) metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 397: 'The Myth of the Bagre' is an example of Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) a narrative poem of initiation
  C) a poem in praise of manly prowess
  D) a poem recited at marriage festivals
  E) a poem sacred to the memory of ancestors
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 398: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, in the Achike family,the character who is central to the theme is Options:
  A) Jaja
  B) Kambili
  C) Mama
  D) Sisi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 399:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima''s Attahiru.

  The play is historical because it deals with

  Options:
  A) real personages and places
  B) the jihad led by Caliph Attahiru
  C) lugard''s attempt to amalgamate the southern and northern protectorates
  D) Attahiru''s ascenssion to the caliphacy in November 1902
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 400: Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) summarize a story
  D) describe a place
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  The correct answer is B .