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 121:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Farce thrives on

  Options:
  A) big events
  B) premonition
  C) absurdity
  D) incidents
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 122:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?

  Options:
  A) Wuthering Heights
  B) The nearby village
  C) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
  D) London, where her cousin Linton lives
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 123:

  This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

  "fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) consonance
  C) assonance
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 124:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  In which of the following genres is the term 'soliloquy' generally used?

  Options:
  A) Novel
  B) Drama
  C) Epic
  D) Poetry
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 125:

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

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 126:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) paradox
  C) contrast
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 127: In The Victims, the affection between Ubaka and Bomboy is significant because it Options:
  A) results in the death of Ubaka
  B) shows that young people are more affectionate than their elders
  C) contrasts with the general hatred in their family
  D) leads to reconciliation in the family
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 128:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 129: The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) allusion
  C) hyperbole
  D) dramatic irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 130:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  Pa Noble became a living legend because

  Options:
  A) several conflicting stories were woven around him
  B) he attained the status of a first-class citizen
  C) he was the only successful son of a Benin chief
  D) he was rich and very generous
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  The correct answer is A .