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 1231:

  'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

  The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

  Options:
  A) hearing
  B) sight
  C) touch
  D) smell.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1232: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A play is called a comedy when Options:
  A) there is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
  B) nobody dies in it
  C) there is no serious quarrel in it
  D) there is a happy resolution of contradictions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1233: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader Options:
  A) not to lose hope in the face of adversity
  B) to enjoy his success
  C) to give up if he does not succeed
  D) to work harder even if he succeeds
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1234:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

  Options:
  A) oppression
  B) mendacity
  C) partiality
  D) embezziement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1235: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In drama, the term climax is used Options:
  A) as a figure of speech connoting beauty
  B) for the point of highest dramatic tension
  C) when the crisis in the play is resolved
  D) when the hero's tragic flaw is revealed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1236:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1237:

  The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Symbolism
  C) Pathetic Fallacy
  D) Analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1238:

  This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

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  "And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
  And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
  And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

  The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1239:

  Literature is studied as a subject at school because

  Options:
  A) it exposes students to the realities of life
  B) it provides entertainment
  C) it merely gives additional work to students
  D) it teaches the use of words
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1240:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''

  The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

  The description above suggests

  Options:
  A) urban disorder
  B) a labyrinth
  C) clutter
  D) disharmony
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  The correct answer is A .