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 1521:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The Bala is symbolically referred to as a fox because of his

  Options:
  A) mental powess
  B) sexual powess
  C) physical powess
  D) royalty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1522: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In drama, the term climax is used Options:
  A) as a figure of speech connoting beauty
  B) for the point of highest dramatic tension
  C) when the crisis in the play is resolved
  D) when the hero's tragic flaw is revealed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1523:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'A great city is a battlefield...You need to be a fighter to live in it, not exist, mark you, live. Anybody can exist, dragging his soul around behind him like a worn-out coat; but living is different'

  'To Sir with Love' by E.R. Braithwaite

  The literary device predominantly used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) oxymoron
  C) symbolism
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1524:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) allusion
  C) ambiguity
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1525:

  This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.

  The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

  Options:
  A) inglorious
  B) gentle
  C) wretches
  D) humble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1526:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, Boxer is respected for his

  Options:
  A) duplicity
  B) reticence
  C) intellect
  D) hard work
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1527:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1528:

  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 1529:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1530:

  'He says

  The medicine gourds are filthy,

  And the herb

  Are drunk from unhygienic cups'

  Okot p Bitek: Song of LawinoThe poet in the lines is saying that

  Options:
  A) the speaker is very hygienic
  B) the person referred to takes Western medicine
  C) herbal medicine is dangerous
  D) the speaker prefers Western medicine
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  The correct answer is C .