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 1091: This question is based on Literary Appreciation “ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ” Anne Frank The Diary of a young GirlThe writer of the passage above is ________? Options:
  A) assertive
  B) retrogressive
  C) optimistic
  D) antagnistic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1092:

  'The dun dun of a drum' is an example of an__________

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) assonance
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1093: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The subject matter of the novel is Options:
  A) exploitation and cruelty
  B) retributive justice
  C) class segregation
  D) totalitarian dictatorship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1094:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Use the excerpt to answer this question.
  "Where light pushes through;
  A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
  A dip to the water.
  And you think:
  "The swallows are flying so late!"
  Swallows?"

  The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

  Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) imagery
  C) Alliteration
  D) Paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1095:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's

  'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

  Options:
  A) an enjoyable tour
  B) a difficult journey
  C) a pleasant journey
  D) an uneventful tour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1096:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1097:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  Where has my love blow his horn?

  The tune of his horn is well-known

  Young men of my clan

  Have you heard the horn of my love?

  Okot P'Bitek: Horn of My Love

  The overriding feeling of the persona in this extract is

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) certainty
  C) frustration
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1098:

  "But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

  Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

  The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

  Options:
  A) first person narrator
  B) protagonist
  C) antagonist
  D) omniscient narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1099:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a copyright
  B) an authority to write
  C) an author's right
  D) a constitional provision
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1100:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

  Options:
  A) as an aside
  B) by a chorus off-stage
  C) on-stage and off-stage
  D) off-stage
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  The correct answer is C .