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 Appreciation.'My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.'William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of
  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) ellipsis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 42: THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to Options:
  A) serve as a constract to Romeo's
  B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
  C) annoy Tybalt
  D) persuade Romeo to forget Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 43: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is Options:
  A) a fictional character
  B) a stock character
  C) a rounded character
  D) an antagonist
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 44: 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'The rhyme scheme from Tennyson's cross the Bar is Options:
  A) abac
  B) abba
  C) abab
  D) abcb
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 45:

  This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

  The tension generated at Ipaja and Iwuya early in the novel is a result of

  Options:
  A) Prophet Elijah's trance
  B) Badejo's antigraft posture
  C) the campaign for parliamentary election
  D) the increase in cocoa prices
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  "Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"Wole Soyinka: "Night".

  Night children in the stanza above reflectsthe consciousness of__________

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 47:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of

  Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) anger
  C) contempt
  D) pity
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 48: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for Options:
  A) Nwakusor
  B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
  C) Nwaeze
  D) Ngozi
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 49:

  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' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 50:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  ''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''

  John Updike, Beech: A Book

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) authoritative
  B) mocking
  C) appreciative
  D) scathing
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  The correct answer is D .