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 1591:

  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 1592:

  Lineation refers to

  Options:
  A) the arrangement of lines in verse form
  B) the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
  C) the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
  D) tracing family descent of poeple in verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1593: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to Options:
  A) describe a place
  B) preach a sermon
  C) tell a story
  D) summarize a story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1594: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.Kufi is a Options:
  A) Christian community
  B) pagan society
  C) Muslim community
  D) traditional society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1595: This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesChanson is a term denoting a Options:
  A) poem of varied metrical froms
  B) from of love song
  C) song from the Middle Ages
  D) popular Korean verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1596:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1597:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism is better than animalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1598:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  '...Great orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home.'Those being ridiculed here are the

  Options:
  A) spinsters
  B) husbands
  C) wives
  D) old women
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1599:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1600:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder'is a prophetic poem because it

  Options:
  A) correctly predicts the end of those who abuse power
  B) predicts the coming of military rulers
  C) pictures the return of politicians to the scene
  D) picture the poet going to hell
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  The correct answer is A .