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 191: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
  "The drums overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: CasualtiesThe poet in the excerpt above uses Options:
  A) litotes
  B) symbolism
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192:

  'He says

  The medicine gourds are filthy,

  And the herb

  Are drunk from unhygienic cups'

  Okot p Bitek: Song of LawinoThe poet in the lines is saying that

  Options:
  A) the speaker is very hygienic
  B) the person referred to takes Western medicine
  C) herbal medicine is dangerous
  D) the speaker prefers Western medicine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 193: This question is based on �Literary Principles.A literary work which imitates another in a distorted form is called Options:
  A) exodium
  B) isocohen
  C) metonymy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 194: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.Kufi is a Options:
  A) Christian community
  B) pagan society
  C) Muslim community
  D) traditional society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195:

  Chansonis a term denoting a

  Options:
  A) popular Korean verse
  B) Song from the middle Ages
  C) Form of love song
  D) poem of Varied Metrical forms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 196:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Though we knew that something was wrong with our society, we made no attempt to assess it.

  Trinidad was too unimportant and we could never be convinced of the value of reading the history of a place which was, as everyone said, only a dot on the map of the world.

  The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul

  The writer here maintains that Trinidad

  Options:
  A) was too insignificant to have a history
  B) was so small that its people did not value its history
  C) was a mere dot and did not therefore attract people's attention
  D) lacked historical significance bcause it could not compete with the rest of the world.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 197:

  A sub-chapter in a piece of drama is a______________

  Options:
  A) Act
  B) Setting
  C) Verse
  D) Scene
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 198:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) plot
  B) setting
  C) theme
  D) structure
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 199:

  'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.

  The narrator here is full of

  Options:
  A) gloom
  B) fears
  C) doubts
  D) cheer
  E) uncertainty.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 200: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  What causes the strained relationship between James and Lawyer B? Options:
  A) Betrayal of trust
  B) Standard of education
  C) Working experience
  D) Family differences
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  The correct answer is A .