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 241: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as Options:
  A) metanoia
  B) metaphysical
  C) metalanguage
  D) metalepsis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 242:

  One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist

  Options:
  A) C. Achebe
  B) C. Ekwensi
  C) W. Soyinka
  D) J.P Clark
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 243:

  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 244: David Diop's poem 'The Vultures', ends in a Options:
  A) denunciation of colonialism
  B) resignation to oppression
  C) vindication of apartheid
  D) renunciation of African culture
  E) proclamanation of hope.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 245: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the worst calamity that can befall a woman is Options:
  A) barreness
  B) inability to bear male children
  C) inability to marry
  D) divorce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 246:
  From the novel; Harvest of Corruption

  Asides being a satire, Ogodo's "Harvest of Corruption" may also be regarded as a________

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) travelogue
  C) tragedy
  D) tragicomedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 247: An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is Options:
  A) pyrrhic
  B) props
  C) pathos
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 248:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  And my children left their peaceful nakedness

  For the uniform of iron and blood'

  In the lines above from David Diop's Loser of Everything' the imagery depicts a displacement of

  Options:
  A) innocence by violence
  B) nature by science
  C) village life by barrack life
  D) the natureal by the artificial
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 249: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of Options:
  A) the old generation
  B) new generation
  C) present generation
  D) successive generation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 250:

  When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
  I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) protest
  C) rejection
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .