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 1311:

  A folk-tale is a__________?

  Options:
  A) Novel
  B) Work Of Fiction
  C) Biography
  D) Novelette
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1312:

  Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.

  The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) hyperbole.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1313: In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by Options:
  A) usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
  B) deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
  C) divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
  D) leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1314:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
  "for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

  The poetic device used in this expression is____

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) irony
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1315:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is

  Options:
  A) bereaved
  B) homeless
  C) recovering from an illness
  D) a trained nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1316:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  In the play the general picture depicted is that of

  Options:
  A) lower-class degeneracy
  B) succeefully arranged marriages
  C) chaotic value systems
  D) claerly focused personalities
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1317: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies Options:
  A) unrequired love
  B) mutual love
  C) impossible love
  D) erotic love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1318:

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

  To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

  Options:
  A) stops the main story to narrate other events
  B) creates a lot of funny episodes
  C) puts too many difficulties in Adans way
  D) shows that Francis is weaks
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1319:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  ''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.

  I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''

  These words concern

  Options:
  A) Obika and his mother
  B) Obika and Okuata
  C) Akueke and her husband
  D) all the young men in the village
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1320:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '

  The lines above in the play are delivered by

  Options:
  A) Kate
  B) Tony
  C) Marlow
  D) Constance
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  The correct answer is D .