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 211:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  The words 'naked' and 'barefoot' as used in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage' suggest

  Options:
  A) affluence
  B) primitivity
  C) penury
  D) reverence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 212:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

  The dominant literary device in the above statement is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) epigram
  C) climax
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 213: A significant of a whole through its significant part is Options:
  A) allegory
  B) pun
  C) synecdoche
  D) cast
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 214:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's first-person narrative techinique

  Options:
  A) makes the work very humorous
  B) makes his work less realistic
  C) quickens the tempo of his narrative
  D) makes his story more believable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 215:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries

  If we weep gently....'

  What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

  Options:
  A) regret and disappointment
  B) disillusion and despair
  C) disdain and disgust
  D) satisfaction and pleasure
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 216:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

  Options:
  A) lopsided resolution of conflicts
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) contrived misrepresentation of characters
  D) match making attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 217:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

  Options:
  A) taste raw and black pepper
  B) sleep in solitary cell
  C) drink a bowl of garri
  D) pay a fine of ten shillings
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 218:

  These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

  From it's resolution of conflicts, the play can be described as a

  Options:
  A) tragedy
  B) farce
  C) melo drama
  D) comedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 219:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 220: Dramatis personae in a play refers to Options:
  A) a list of characters
  B) order of appearance
  C) cast list
  D) protagonist and antagonist
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  The correct answer is A .