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 151: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a Options:
  A) saga
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) harangue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 152: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader Options:
  A) not to lose hope in the face of adversity
  B) to enjoy his success
  C) to give up if he does not succeed
  D) to work harder even if he succeeds
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 153:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

  Options:
  A) enticing the French Jehovah witnesses
  B) dispossessing him of his piece of land
  C) conniving with the Cherubims and Seraphims
  D) organizing a deceitful dancing competition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 154: This question is based on General Literary Principles.An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is Options:
  A) pathos
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) props
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 155:

  The phrase living death in a literary work is an example_____________

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Prose
  C) Oxymoron
  D) Aside
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 156: In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize Options:
  A) source of poetic inspiration
  B) traditional African ways of life
  C) the complex rhythms of human life
  D) festivals which are held annually
  E) the noisy pastimes of hunters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 157:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The ideological leader of the revolution in the novel is

  Options:
  A) Napoleon
  B) Snowball
  C) Old Major
  D) Squealer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 158:

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

  The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) insanity
  B) wickedness
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 159: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  Nnaife's conscription into the army is portrayed as part of Options:
  A) family conflict
  B) British oppression
  C) family tradition
  D) socitetal intrigue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 160:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .