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 171: "He had knocked his toes against so many things that he had no toenails anymore and the yaws he had suffered from his youth had twisted his toes up so that they pointed to the sky"Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal,the description above is in reference to the foot of Options:
  A) Kelara
  B) Meka
  C) Egamba
  D) Mvondo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 172:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Allegory is used to describe a work in which

  Options:
  A) humans are transposed into animals
  B) both animals and humans swap roles
  C) animals are given human characters
  D) abstract ideas are personified
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 173:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil

  From lamps'.

  Options:
  A) Abiku drinks oil
  B) For Abiku, oil is water
  C) while other babies suck the breast, Abiku sucks oil
  D) The lamp is kept burning all night on account of Abiku
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 174: "That that is why we must acc-c-cept the uni-versal d-d-dome, b-b-because ththere is no d-d-ddirection. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of religion and b-b-bridges d-don't jjjjust g-g-go from hhhere to the there; a bridge also faces backwards". Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
  The idiolectical feature of the character's speech is the Options:
  A) repetition of consonant sounds
  B) repetition of initial consonant sounds
  C) duplication of consonant sound clusters
  D) multiplication of diphthongs
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 175:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A motif is

  Options:
  A) a recurrent image in a work of literature
  B) the reason behind a character's behaviour
  C) a single matrical line
  D) an essay or treatise on a particular subject
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 176:

  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.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 177:

  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 and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is

  Options:
  A) simile and repetition
  B) rhythm and metaphor
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) repetition and personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 178:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

  Options:
  A) Muslim faithfuls fight with bows and arrows while the British solders use rifles
  B) Emir of Zazzau calls the whitemen to save him from the attack of a fellow Muslim, the Emir of Kontagora
  C) emirates of Sokoto and Zaria have not been friends since the reign of Caliph Abduirahman
  D) emirates are only united to fight the whitemen when it is the turn of Sokoto
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 179:

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) short story
  B) diary
  C) novella
  D) novel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 180:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'

  The speaker in the passage above is referring to a

  Options:
  A) moon gazer
  B) slave raider
  C) muezzin
  D) usurper
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  The correct answer is B .