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 1041: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and Options:
  A) custom
  B) turth
  C) urgency
  D) origin
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1042:

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

  Gabriel Okara presents the Black in relation to the child-Front in his poem 'The Fisherman's invocation as a source of

  Options:
  A) inspiration
  B) destruction
  C) anxiety
  D) uncertainty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1043:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A couplet refers to

  Options:
  A) two successive lines of rhyming verse
  B) two stanzas that cannot stand alone
  C) four irregular verses in stanzas
  D) poetry that is actd on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1044: A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called Options:
  A) am elegy
  B) an eulogy
  C) a sonnet
  D) an ode.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1045: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1046:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) juxtaposition
  C) comparison
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1047:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.

  Sweet smile in time of snari gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1048: 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 1049: Characterization in a novel means the Options:
  A) list of characters featuring in it
  B) mode of presenting the fictional individuals
  C) peculiar mannerisms of the narrator
  D) resolution of the conflict between the characters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1050:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Cliph...Son. Open all your ears. May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands..Now the rest is my burden. I am willing to accept Allah's will in the matter.The Language of the speaker above is

  Options:
  A) submissive
  B) inciting
  C) diplomatic
  D) imploring
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  The correct answer is A .