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 1491:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The language of the play is

  Options:
  A) ambiguous
  B) condemnatory
  C) apolitical
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1492: Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of Options:
  A) repetition of symbolic references
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) exaggeration
  D) flowering language.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1493:

  This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________

  Options:
  A) Paragraph
  B) Theme
  C) Chapters
  D) Characters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1494:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.

  Oculi, 'Orphan'

  These lines illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) sadism
  B) sophism
  C) satire
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1495: 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.''And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as Options:
  A) smart
  B) sick
  C) weak
  D) strong
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1496:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'

  Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.

  The force of the speech above is sustained on.

  Options:
  A) delivery
  B) musicality
  C) repetition
  D) oratory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1497:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1498:

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

  The author makes the reader believe his story by using

  Options:
  A) a confessional style
  B) elements of humour
  C) detailed description
  D) another narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1499: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Black theater is drama concerned with Options:
  A) mourners dressed in black
  B) actors of black origin
  C) the identity of black Americans
  D) Africans of West Indian origin
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1500:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  What special function does Ramatoulaye's diary perform?

  Options:
  A) It is a record of her personal experiences
  B) It brings succour to her in distress
  C) It helps her understand current events
  D) It aids her memory of pst events
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  The correct answer is B .