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 1541: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.Meka can best be described as Options:
  A) a simple hearted old man
  B) an impulsive old man
  C) an old religious bigot
  D) an egocentric old man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1542:

  A struggle between opposing forces in a story/play is________

  Options:
  A) Denouement
  B) Conflict
  C) Comedy
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1543:

  "A time to sow,
  A time to reap,
  A time to born,
  A time to die"
  This exemplies the use of ...

  Options:
  A) hendiadys
  B) chiasmus
  C) anaphora
  D) anadiplosis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1544:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to

  England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.

  The subject matter of the passage above is the

  Options:
  A) uncritical acceptance of European values
  B) woes of English marriage
  C) adventures in England
  D) intransigence of an African wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1545: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) As soon as Ayo becomes the cocoa inspector
  B) Shortly before the beggars strike
  C) As soon as his mother starts kickiung against it.
  D) After their contemptuous treatment at the hands of Layeni
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1546:

  "A time to sow,
  A time to reap,
  A time to born,
  A time to die"

  This exemplies the use of ...

  Options:
  A) anadiplosis
  B) chiasmus
  C) anaphora
  D) hendiadys
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1547:

  'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
  And got with our bags and our brushes to work
  Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
  So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

  In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

  Options:
  A) is working indoors
  B) is wearing warm clothes
  C) is doing his duty
  D) has just woken from sleep
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1548:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'what time night it is

  I do not know

  Except that like some fish

  Doped out of the deep

  I have bobbed up bellywise'.

  J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'

  Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Assonance
  C) Hyperbole
  D) Onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1549:

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) anaphora
  C) epitaph
  D) tautology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1550:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .