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 41:

  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.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 42:

  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.

  In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) joy
  C) empathy
  D) envy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 43: Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the Options:
  A) rise to fame of the central character
  B) success of the hero or heroine
  C) reward of the hero
  D) sudden change in the fate of the central character.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 44: In drama, the use of gestures to communicate is known as Options:
  A) mime
  B) realistic drama
  C) melodrama
  D) dialogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 45:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ocol rejects the old type.

  He is in love with a modern woman

  He is in love with a beautiful girl

  Who speaks English.'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  The writer of the lines above

  Options:
  A) ridicules Ocol's value judgment
  B) is critical of the modern woman
  C) appraises people who speak English
  D) shuns the old type of woman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 47: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Monometer is a Options:
  A) single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel'
  B) line repeated in the first syllable of a word
  C) single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
  D) line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 48: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Oxymoron is the use of two contrasting words that are Options:
  A) placed far apart
  B) different in meaning
  C) placed side by side
  D) similar in meaning
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 49: 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 50:

  We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.

  In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

  Options:
  A) Obierika
  B) Okoli
  C) Odukwe
  D) Okonkwo
  E) Ezenwa.
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  The correct answer is D .