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 741:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding beneath the shorts. There is a larg hole in the right sleeve of Malick's sweater; the arm on the same side hangs down limply. One of the boys supporting him explained to me:

  'A motorcyclist knocked down Malick and Alioune.

  We were playing football'''

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  The use of the present tense in the passage

  Options:
  A) makes it dramatic
  B) heightens its objectivity
  C) captures the narrator's anger
  D) makes it farcical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 742: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a Options:
  A) knife and a sword
  B) knife and gun
  C) hammer and a sickle
  D) matchet and a hammer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 743:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Hall to then, blithe spirit!

  Bird thou wert,

  That from Heaven, or near it,

  In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!

  'To A Shylark' by P.B. Shelley

  The main figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) hyperbole
  C) euphemism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 744:

  This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  '... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'

  Who made the above statement and to whom?

  Options:
  A) Macduff to Ross
  B) Malcolm to Macduff
  C) Malcolm to Ross
  D) Macduff to Malcolm.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 745:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The language of the play is

  Options:
  A) ambiguous
  B) condemnatory
  C) apolitical
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 746: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.Elliot's The Journey of the Magi could be said to examine the issues of Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) holy pilgrimage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 747:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The dominant images in 'She Came in Silken Drapes' are

  Options:
  A) reverence
  B) contempt
  C) indifference
  D) awe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 748: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 749:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 750:

  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 Duke's precious gift to the Duchess in Browning's 'My Last Duchess 'is

  Options:
  A) his family name
  B) a wedding ring
  C) his aristocratic class
  D) the title of a Duchess
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  The correct answer is D .