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 501:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 502:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Persona refers to the

  Options:
  A) central character in a play
  B) voice of the character
  C) the image a character presents
  D) the personality of a character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 503:

  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.

  The villains in this poem by Osundara are

  Options:
  A) the beggars sprawled in gutters
  B) those who squander the wealth of the earth
  C) the thousands buried alive
  D) the people who die in abandon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 504:

  This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

  " The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) imagery
  C) personification
  D) synedoche
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 505:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?

  Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay

  In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

  Options:
  A) put the addressee on the defensive
  B) show off to listener
  C) provike a fight
  D) find out the truth from the addresee
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 506:

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!
  You are my mortal enemy'

  The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

  Options:
  A) allusion
  B) an ode
  C) metaphor
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 507:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

  Options:
  A) indiscriminate love and admiration
  B) unrestrained blushing
  C) officious fool
  D) intermitent smiles
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 508:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.'

  William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) assonance
  C) metaphor
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 509:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  In the play, the central idea is that gender equality is

  Options:
  A) both undersirable and unattainable
  B) attainable and desirable
  C) obnoxious but desirable
  D) desirable but unattainable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 510:

  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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant images in Nyi Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth'are

  Options:
  A) disease, illness and death
  B) aristocracy, affluence and wealth
  C) poverty, suffering and the downtrodden
  D) greed aristocracy and the ambitious
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  The correct answer is C .