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 61: Miss Havisham grooms Estella the way she does so as to make Estella Options:
  A) a model lady
  B) a good wife to Pip
  C) a dependable character
  D) unattractive to men
  E) a means of torturing menfolk.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 62: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 63:

  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.

  The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's

  'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

  Options:
  A) an enjoyable tour
  B) a difficult journey
  C) a pleasant journey
  D) an uneventful tour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 64:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): 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.):West African Verse

  The poet-persona in Serenade is

  Options:
  A) boastful
  B) arrogant
  C) persuasive
  D) deceptive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 65: This Question is based on General Literacy principles and Literacy Appreciations. A poem used to express grief on the occasion of someone's death is _______? Options:
  A) elergy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 66: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to Options:
  A) discover the beauty of a literary work
  B) finds faults in a literary work
  C) analyse and evaluate a literary work
  D) compare literary works
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 67: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as Options:
  A) an authentic African
  B) a cultural mulatto
  C) sophisticated African
  D) a cultured youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 68:

  'Was it so hard, Achilles,

  So very hard to die?

  Thou knowest and i know not-

  So much the happier am i'

  This verse is taken from a poem written by a soldier at the battle-front. He clearly sees dying in battle as

  Options:
  A) glorious
  B) patriotic
  C) brave and desirable
  D) a good experience
  E) he may be brave but undesirable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 69:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Hyperbole refers specifically to

  Options:
  A) exaggeration for adornment
  B) exaggeration for emphasis
  C) understatement of ideas
  D) restatement of ideas
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 70:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

  The excerpt above is an example of

  Options:
  A) invocation
  B) ode
  C) elegy
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .