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 General Literary Principles.Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of Options:
  A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
  B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
  C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
  D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  ...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies

  Options:
  A) meaningless foreign religious parctices
  B) meaningless indigenous religious practices
  C) the architectural beaty of the cathedral
  D) the Catholic Church parctices
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And makeme,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) personification
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' Shelly, 'Ode to the West Wind'. The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Habu Adams ends up in the novel as a

  Options:
  A) married man
  B) repentant husband
  C) successful businessman
  D) lame lover
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7:

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

  Which of the following could be applicable to all genres?

  Options:
  A) Symbolism
  B) Rhythm
  C) Action
  D) Narration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime,Asogo is a game in which Options:
  A) mothers lure their babies to sleep
  B) fathers narrate animal stories
  C) boys abuse girls with music
  D) girls sing songs of praise and admonition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9: This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.Laye learns early in life that his society respects Options:
  A) spirits and ghosts
  B) human beings and spirits
  C) animals and witches
  D) gold and magicians
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) imagery
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .