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 161:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare

  The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's

  'The Dry Season' thematically suggests

  Options:
  A) destruction
  B) confusion
  C) desolation
  D) death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 162: This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.Laye learns early in life that his society respects Options:
  A) spirits and ghosts
  B) human beings and spirits
  C) animals and witches
  D) gold and magicians
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

  Options:
  A) theatre of the absurd
  B) role-playing
  C) audience participation
  D) total theatre
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 164:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The Dorothy of the play is

  Options:
  A) Tony Lumpkin's mother
  B) Young Marlow's mother
  C) Miss Neville's mother
  D) Kate, Hardcastle's daughter
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 165:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.'

  Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.

  In the excerpt above,the subject's experience in the lift is

  Options:
  A) timely
  B) unpleasant
  C) amusing
  D) comfortable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 166:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

  The dominant literary device in the above statement is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) epigram
  C) climax
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 167:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'

  In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) symbol
  C) allusion
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 168: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 169:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '''Yet lunchtime ''

  Without thinking of what of what he was saying

  The man tapped out, 'Not food'.

  Insu Siding answered, 'Plenty here''.

  And a conversation had begun.

  ''Lucky''.

  ''Come. Transfer. Easy''

  ''Can't.''

  ''Why?''

  ''Secret.''

  ''Familu?''

  ''Secret''.

  The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by A.K. Armah.

  This is an example of a dialogue that is

  Options:
  A) pitchy
  B) witty
  C) laconic
  D) simple
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 170:

  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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) onomatopeia
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .