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 1771:

  When a writer deviates from the chronological arrangement of events in a literary piece, he uses ...

  Options:
  A) Anadiplosis
  B) Anachrony
  C) Chrestomathy
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1772: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Pun as a literary device deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arragement of words
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1773: Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims? Options:
  A) An industriouswoman plagued by bad luck
  B) A quarrelsome woman
  C) A jealous rival
  D) A shrewd calculating woman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1774: Characterization in a novel means the Options:
  A) list of characters featuring in it
  B) mode of presenting the fictional individuals
  C) peculiar mannerisms of the narrator
  D) resolution of the conflict between the characters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1775:

  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 1776:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that morns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) beeaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1777: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.The tone of Umeh's Ambassadors of Poverty can be described as Options:
  A) panegyrical
  B) metaphorical
  C) sarcastic
  D) admonitory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1778: This question is based on General Literacy PrinciplesAn example of a narrative poem is ________? Options:
  A) elegy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1779:

  THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM WOLE SOYINKA (ED) POEMS OF BLACK AFRICA, E.K. SENANU AND T. VINCENT (EDS.) SELECTION OF AFRICAN POETRY AND E.W. PARKER (ED.) A PAGEANT OF LONGER POEMS.The effect of the repetition of the words

  'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that

  Options:
  A) a mood of bitterness is created
  B) the poet easily reveals his anger
  C) it captures the poet's desperation
  D) it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1780:

  'They are as fearsome as they are fearless' is an example of______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) pun
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .