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 581: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
  Violence by Festus Lyayi
  The greater emphasis in this passage is on the Options:
  A) feling of doubt
  B) feeling of despair
  C) feeling of desperation
  D) sence of failure
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 582:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The writer's satire is most biting when applied to

  Options:
  A) the Hastings
  B) Mr. Hardcastle
  C) Young Marlow
  D) Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 583:

  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.

  'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

  Options:
  A) adventurous
  B) drunken
  C) lively
  D) restive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 584: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of Options:
  A) being more educated
  B) accommodation
  C) good job
  D) the rights to vote
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 585:

  We sang that song before

  In the thousand seasons of good harvest

  And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints

  On the long shores.A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) alliteration
  C) simile
  D) onomotopoeia
  E) personification.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 586: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 587:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by

  Options:
  A) circumlocution
  B) irony
  C) proverb
  D) parable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 588: 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; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked SolesIn Marvel's To His Coy Mistress the poet-persona tries to Options:
  A) build up the climax of expectation of women
  B) discuss how a woman labours hard
  C) meet the people's expectation in a religious adventure
  D) discuss the nature of man and the value of time
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 589:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The play is

  Options:
  A) a melodrama
  B) a tragedy
  C) an epic
  D) a farce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 590: "Of o cam fastem nut one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already. He'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog..." Shakespeare, Othello
  From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is Options:
  A) disobedient
  B) quarrelsome
  C) drunkard
  D) scheming
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  The correct answer is D .