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 81:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  Adah's sojourn in London reveals that

  Options:
  A) marriage is an equal partnership between spouses
  B) her marriege improves
  C) Francis is a hardworking man
  D) the plight of the black woman does not change
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 82: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Monometer is a Options:
  A) single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel'
  B) line repeated in the first syllable of a word
  C) single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
  D) line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 83:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The stage direction at the end of the play reveals

  Options:
  A) the actors in a changing room
  B) Mama Kayode raising the song of hope
  C) Moremi and Titubi in harsh spotlight
  D) the Director making a farewell speech
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 84:

  ''Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind" illustrates_________

  Options:
  A) inversion
  B) paradox
  C) humor
  D) mood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 85: Poetry deals with one of the following Options:
  A) emotion only
  B) death only
  C) ideas only
  D) emotion and ideas
  E) beauty only
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 86:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  ...'the hawk will flutter and turn

  On its wings and swoop for the mouse,

  The dogs will run for the hare,

  The hare for its little life.'

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' mean that

  Options:
  A) this is a hunting season
  B) there is chaos
  C) the hare will be killed
  D) the hawk and the dogs are strong
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 87:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 88: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the Options:
  A) people's struggle for survival
  B) intolerance of the new generation
  C) celebration of African tradition
  D) criticism of modern tradition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 89: When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means Options:
  A) Eliza faces the threat of premature death
  B) Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
  C) Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
  D) Eliza will not survive her illness
  E) Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 90:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  The basic idea of any given work of art is its

  Options:
  A) imagery
  B) style
  C) theme
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is C .