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 131: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is Options:
  A) epilogue
  B) mime
  C) soliloquy
  D) aside
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 132: A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as Options:
  A) exclamation
  B) litotes
  C) metonymy
  D) hyperbole
  E) antonym.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 133:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 134:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 135:

  ________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

  Options:
  A) Referrals
  B) Chiasmus
  C) Metonymy
  D) Allusions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 136:

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

  'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
  B) the harvest season came too early
  C) the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
  D) Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 137:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

  Options:
  A) Islamic and modern traditions
  B) pre-Islamic and Islamic traditions
  C) pre-Islamic traditions
  D) pre-Islamic and modern traditions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 138: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
  Violence by Festus Lyayi
  The greater emphasis in this passage is on the Options:
  A) feling of doubt
  B) feeling of despair
  C) feeling of desperation
  D) sence of failure
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 139: In The Victims, the two old women play the role of Options:
  A) guardians of tradition
  B) eavesdroppers
  C) witches
  D) chorus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 140: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.Room 101 symbolizes a place oF Options:
  A) rest
  B) humiliation
  C) torture
  D) fun
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  The correct answer is C .