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 821: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to Options:
  A) his beloved country for which he yearns
  B) his love
  C) his love interfused with yearning for his country
  D) a not easily discernible subject.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 822: The banished Duke regained his kingdom when his brother Frederick Options:
  A) was defeated in battle
  B) was rejected by his people
  C) died on his way to the woods
  D) was converted by a religious man
  E) became too old to rule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 823:

  'I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,

  Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents'.

  In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word 'Forests' stands for

  Options:
  A) friendliness
  B) insecurity
  C) innocence
  D) fertility
  E) safety.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 824:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

  Options:
  A) motif
  B) ritual
  C) myth
  D) concept
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 825:

  'All day long, all along the line

  Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'

  For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means

  Options:
  A) creativity
  B) amusement
  C) relaxation
  D) restriction
  E) freedom.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 826:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

  
  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but effecive
  B) economical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 827:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.The mood of Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be described as

  Options:
  A) sober
  B) boastful
  C) defiant
  D) languid
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 828: 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 VerseThe use of enjambment in Cheney-Coker's Myopia emphasizes the Options:
  A) anger of the peasants
  B) beauty of the poem
  C) distressed mood of the persona
  D) arrangement of the stanzas
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 829:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) allusion
  C) ambiguity
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 830:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing

  Options:
  A) retrospection
  B) flashback
  C) historical drama
  D) dramatic shift
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  The correct answer is B .