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 J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________
  "Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!" Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) Oxymoron
  C) Alliteration
  D) Euphemism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 162:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

  Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 163:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

  The heavy downpour on the night of Meka's investiture symbolises.

  Options:
  A) revelation
  B) conviction
  C) blessing
  D) mockery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 164:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 6 is an example of______

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Paradox
  D) Hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 165:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 166:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A humorous scene, incident or speech in the course of a serious fiction or drama is a

  Options:
  A) play-within-the-play
  B) comic scene
  C) comic relief
  D) tragi-comedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 167: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionThe Two dominant themes of the play are Options:
  A) honesty and decency
  B) immorality and greed
  C) poverty and education
  D) weeding and planting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 168:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

  'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) Ogeyi
  B) Alice
  C) Ayo
  D) Mrs Obi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 169:

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

  The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the

  Options:
  A) childhood fun
  B) only set in a crown of thorns
  C) gory details
  D) wicked sappor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 170: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the Options:
  A) people's struggle for survival
  B) intolerance of the new generation
  C) celebration of African tradition
  D) criticism of modern tradition
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  The correct answer is A .