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 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  One thing that Angel Clare hates most is Options:
  A) the nation of old family
  B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
  C) Cambridge education
  D) becoming a minister
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 82:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 6 is an example of______

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Paradox
  D) Hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 83:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals

  Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the prophet
  C) Jero's house
  D) Chume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 84: An over-used expression is Options:
  A) a cliche
  B) a cacophony
  C) an epigram
  D) an archetype
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 85:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The hunter dies and leaves his poverty to his gun

  The blacksmith dies and leaves his poverty to his anvil..

  The extract above is an example of

  Options:
  A) elegy
  B) ballad
  C) epic
  D) eulogy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 86:

  Group of lines are called _____

  Options:
  A) Sentences
  B) Stanzas
  C) Danzas
  D) Line Grouping
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 87: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 88:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: 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 in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,

  Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

  Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

  The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

  Options:
  A) Onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) rhythm
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 89: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.'Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is Options:
  A) satiric
  B) affectionate
  C) indifferent
  D) sympathetic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 90: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Oxymoron is the use of two contrasting words that are Options:
  A) placed far apart
  B) different in meaning
  C) placed side by side
  D) similar in meaning
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  The correct answer is C .