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 1711: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  In the novel, Africanness is achieved in both Options:
  A) setting and characterization
  B) narration and style
  C) diction and syntax
  D) pun and style
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1712:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1713: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  The poet persona in Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) pessimistic
  C) romantic
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1714:

  "...Rage is Chief
  Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
  Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
  Enemy of equanimity"

  The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1715:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as

  Options:
  A) foreshadowing
  B) rising action
  C) flashback
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1716:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'Now I fear disturbance of the quiet season Winter shall come bringing death from the sea

  Ruinous spring shall beat at our doors

  Root and shoot shall eat eyes and our ears'.

  The dramatic technique employed in this passage is

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) anticlimax
  C) foreshadowing
  D) flasback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1717: In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from Options:
  A) sad complaining voices of beggars
  B) pitiful anger bowing like a tumour
  C) not listening to the dead
  D) clamouring and crying roughly over our torments
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1718:
  From the novel; Kossoh Town Boy

  If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

  Options:
  A) a historical novel
  B) a piece of writing telling us about the Life of its author
  C) a short story
  D) a narrative tale
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1719:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1720:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'

  Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The terseness of the prose above is employed to

  Options:
  A) capture a climax
  B) depict tension
  C) condemn the man
  D) sympathize with the girl
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  The correct answer is A .