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 1241:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1242:

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

  The words 'naked' and 'barefoot' as used in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage' suggest

  Options:
  A) affluence
  B) primitivity
  C) penury
  D) reverence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1243:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ibadan,

  Running splash of rust

  And gold - flung and scattered

  Among seven hills like broken

  China in the sun.'

  J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'

  The poem above is memorable for its

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) heroism
  C) metaphor
  D) lyricism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1244: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) melodrama
  C) enjambment
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1245:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade;.

  The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

  The figure of speech used here is

  Options:
  A) pathetic fallacy
  B) similitude
  C) repetition
  D) zeugma
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1246:

  "If

  A provoked houseboy

  Cannot match his

  Wicked master

  Strength with strength,

  He maims the master's favorite

  Goat!"Obaruduagbon employs this proverb to explain why

  Options:
  A) the Oba should be placated
  B) he and Esasoyen were arrested
  C) Uwangue Egiebo was murdered
  D) he was rude to the Oba
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1247:

  A short poem that expresses an idea in a clever way is called _____

  Options:
  A) An Epigram
  B) A Limerick
  C) An Ode
  D) A Lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1248: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, the man is despised by the wife and family because he Options:
  A) does not give them sufficient money to maintain the house
  B) does not capitalize on his education and position to get ahead
  C) does not join Koomson's political party
  D) fails in his campaign to get into the government house
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1249:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

  Room 101 symbolises a place of________???

  Options:
  A) rest
  B) fun
  C) humiliation
  D) torture
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1250: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .