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:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'And when He looks at the grimy coating,

  Caking off your emaciated skin,...'

  These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe

  Options:
  A) the texture of the pauper's skin
  B) the coat the pauper was wearing
  C) the effect of the surroundings
  D) poverty and dirt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 172:

  When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

  Options:
  A) a symbol
  B) an irony
  C) a subject
  D) an epigram
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 173:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The stylistic device that uses the name of one thing to describe another is called a

  Options:
  A) synonym
  B) metonym
  C) mataphor
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 174:

  Fights by the book of arithmetic

  The figure of speech in the line above is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) innuendo
  C) hyperbole
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 175: Ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) discussed
  B) read
  C) sung
  D) acted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 176: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 177:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 178:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jessie Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer,Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 179:

  A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) interlude
  C) flashback
  D) foreshadowing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 180:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.

  Theseus:

  Now, fair Hippolyta,our nuptial hour Draw on space for happy day bring in Another moon. But, O, me thinks how slow.The old moon wanes,she lingers my desires,Like to a step-drama or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.

  William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

  The literary device used in the excerpt above are

  Options:
  A) personification and simile
  B) alliteration and synechdocheand
  C) rhyme and refrain
  D) irony and suspense
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  The correct answer is A .