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:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) ballad
  C) lyrical poem
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 132:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) exposition
  C) structure
  D) symbol
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 133:

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

  ''...It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.

  We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. soon submit to the burial mat.''

  In this passage, Ezeulu is pointing out to his son the wisdom in

  Options:
  A) moderation
  B) bravery
  C) cowardice
  D) sitting on the fence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 134: Tone and mood of a poem refers to Options:
  A) locale
  B) atmosphere
  C) setting
  D) space
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 135:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Zeugma is a figurative device in which a

  Options:
  A) noun refers to two parts of an expression
  B) conjunction governs two parts of an expression
  C) verb refers to two parts of an expression
  D) pronoun governs two parts of an expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 136:

  'what happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up

  Like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore-

  And then run?'

  In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

  Options:
  A) transferred epithet
  B) synecdoche
  C) alliteration
  D) simile.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 137: "The madman has entered our house with violence
  Defiling our sacred grounds
  Claiming the single truth of the universe
  Bending down our priest with iron".
  Mazzizi Kunnene's progress
  The imagery of the line above captures the idea of Options:
  A) coercion
  B) truth
  C) religiosity
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 138:

  A fable is a story in which________?

  Options:
  A) allegations are made about characters
  B) animal is or things are used as characters
  C) there is an important setting
  D) the story is told in poetic form
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 139:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of

  Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) night -fires going out
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 140:

  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 .