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 Literary Principles.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  Yon solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;

  Stop here, or gently pass!

  Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,

  And sings a melancholy strain;

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is

  Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) abcabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 42:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a constitutional provision
  B) a copyright
  C) an authority to write
  D) an author's right
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 43:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 44:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate

  Options:
  A) man
  B) blindness
  C) sleep
  D) pride
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

  'But Obatal,

  God Creation,

  Has a way

  Of consoling the distressed.

  The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  Options:
  A) great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  B) subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  C) pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  D) birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The events in the novel are set in

  Options:
  A) a possible soccial climate
  B) the distant past
  C) a real human society
  D) an imagined world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 47: In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because Options:
  A) his pay was poor
  B) he wanted to join the army
  C) he quarrelled with his wife often
  D) he wanted to break away and be on his own
  E) he liked to travel.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 48:

  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 49: Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) a lyric
  C) dramatic monologue
  D) ballad
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 50: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand Options:
  A) Friar Laurence
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Balthasar
  D) Friar John
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  The correct answer is B .