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 1:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'You are the cold nests

  In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'

  Kittobbe: To the Childless

  The device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) imagery
  C) metaphor
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) dramatis personae
  C) contrived manipulation
  D) dramatic reversals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) portagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) condemn
  B) elaborate
  C) abuse
  D) praise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5: '...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he Options:
  A) he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
  B) exiled Aderopo from his presence
  C) treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
  D) no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The Ministry of peace is concerned with making Options:
  A) weapons
  B) wars
  C) reconciliation
  D) instruments
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 7: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  In the play, the character of Lawyer B is presented through the use of Options:
  A) play-within-the-play
  B) flashback
  C) dialogue
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Do not thank me,instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling,vomitting,rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you. But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?

  Answer. Or is the land at peace?

  Are not people ailing and dying

  Ola Rotimi: The God''s Are Not

  To Blame

  Options:
  A) chieftancy tussel
  B) political unrest
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and war
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as

  Options:
  A) litterateur
  B) laureattes
  C) literaria
  D) literati
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  The character in the novel who best symbolizes man's pride in his ability to reason is

  Options:
  A) Henry
  B) Maurice
  C) Piggy
  D) Roger
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  The correct answer is C .