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 731:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through

  '........They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests.......'

  _ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synecdoche
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 732: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work that teaches moral is said to be Options:
  A) instructive
  B) corrective
  C) impressive
  D) didactic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 733: This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
  ''My heart thus pressing-fix'd my face and eye-with a sententious look, that nothing means...'In the lines above, the speaker implies that Options:
  A) his gesture means nothing
  B) he is a pious man
  C) he is being sentimental
  D) his heart is pressing against his face and eye
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 734:

  'Now the bells are tolling

  A year is dead.

  And my heart is slowly beating

  The Nunc Dimittis

  To all my hopes and mute

  Yearnings of a year

  And ghost hover round

  Dream beyond dream'.For this poet, the passing year has

  Options:
  A) been one of satisfaction and fulfilment
  B) has nothing to do with his personal life
  C) brought death to his relatives
  D) meant unrealized hopes
  E) brought changes
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 735:

  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.

  The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is

  Options:
  A) an aristocrats's marital problems
  B) the pitfalls of a duchess now dead
  C) an ambassador's personal life
  D) the pride and arrogance of an aristocrat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 736:

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

  'If you can procreate without loving, merely to satisfy the pride of your declining mother, then I' find you despicable...'

  Whose words are these?

  Options:
  A) Aissatou
  B) Ramatoulaye
  C) Young Nabou
  D) Jacqueline
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 737:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there

  He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.

  This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) cannot spell correctly
  B) cannot speak English correctly
  C) is a stranger
  D) is very angry
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 738:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  Options:
  A) the corruption in political life
  B) an indispensable commodity
  C) the destruction of social values
  D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 739: The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is Options:
  A) suffering and oppression
  B) laughter and happiness
  C) singing and merry making
  D) love for a woman
  E) long journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 740: This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of Options:
  A) the tragic demise of Odibe
  B) death as the finality of man''s experience
  C) victory over tribulation
  D) the tragic demise of Nkem
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  The correct answer is C .