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 771: The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth Options:
  A) death and burial
  B) man's mortality
  C) the changes in seasons
  D) the propitiation of ancestors
  E) the falling od dew-drops.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 772:

  The sides of a stage are called

  Options:
  A) both sides
  B) the ways
  C) the wings
  D) the pits
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 773:

  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.

  In Rubadiri's 'Stanley Meets Mutesa' the king receives the explorer with

  Options:
  A) suspicion
  B) delight
  C) optimism
  D) relief
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 774: These questions are based on general Literary principlesTravellogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwrite
  B) by an unpopular novelist
  C) on a journey
  D) before the death of the author
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 775: "And blossoms blown away"
  The line above from William Blake's poem " The school boy" is an example of Options:
  A) personification
  B) euphemism
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 776: This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to Options:
  A) draw sympathy for the old man
  B) show the old man''s fruitless effort
  C) show that thje skeleton itself is useful
  D) mock the misadventure of the old man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 777:

  'No; This my hand will rather

  The multitudinous seas incarnadine

  Making the green and red .'

  In the above lines the figure of speech used is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 778:

  'I am informed the day recycles itself today

  When I slept in the Lord in February

  I blame no one for an untimely death

  I bless Good for a noble departure-His words

  The lord taketh the righteous away before evil days

  The lines above express

  Options:
  A) anniversary
  B) procreation
  C) incarnation
  D) resurrection
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 779:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The last major battle in the novel is the battle

  Options:
  A) of the Cowshed
  B) of the Windmill
  C) to oust Mr.Jones
  D) to overthrow Snowball
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 780:

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

  '....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.'

  On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?

  Options:
  A) At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
  B) After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
  C) When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
  D) When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed
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  The correct answer is B .