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 1611: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1612:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1613: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.A savage custom, barbaric, out-dated Rejected, denounced, accursed Excommunicated, archaic, degrading Humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, Retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable what custom does Lakunle refer to in the above excerpt? Options:
  A) The seduction of a maiden
  B) Wrestling contests as an exercise
  C) The practic of polygamy
  D) The payment of bride price
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1614:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  In the novel the society puts high value on

  Options:
  A) male ascendancy
  B) procreation
  C) gender equity
  D) engalitarianism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1615:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An address to a metaphysical source of inspiration by a poet is called

  Options:
  A) clairvoyance
  B) inspiration
  C) invocation
  D) nemesis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1616:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

  Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'

  The stanza above succinctly presents the

  Options:
  A) problem of war
  B) problem of hunger
  C) folly of soldiers
  D) repercussion of violence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1617: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Options:
  A) James agrees that Aaron and Maanan should study what they want
  B) Lawyer B harasses Maanan in his office
  C) Haanah, James' wife convinces him
  D) Aaron and Maanan agree to read the courses James chooses for them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1618:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Yaremi's only son is______?

  Options:
  A) Alani
  B) Wande
  C) Olode
  D) Deyo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1619:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1620: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes Options:
  A) an object of religious worship
  B) the poet's mother
  C) the poet's cultural traditions
  D) a river in the poet's village
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  The correct answer is A .