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 261:

  "They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,

  Kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels

  Waiting to be loaded."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) mixed metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 262:

  "If

  A provoked houseboy

  Cannot match his

  Wicked master

  Strength with strength,

  He maims the master's favorite

  Goat!"Obaruduagbon employs this proverb to explain why

  Options:
  A) the Oba should be placated
  B) he and Esasoyen were arrested
  C) Uwangue Egiebo was murdered
  D) he was rude to the Oba
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 263:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

  Options:
  A) the priest was only an impostor
  B) superstition reigns superme in Ozala
  C) traditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
  D) the pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 264: An allegory is a story Options:
  A) in which people or things or events have another meaning
  B) which aims at teaching a moral lesson
  C) in which allegations are made about the characters
  D) told in verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 265: In a work of Literature, the hero is one Options:
  A) whose name is mentioned the greatest number of times in the text
  B) who is antagonistic to every one else
  C) whose experience provide the central conflict in the work
  D) who dies in the course of the story
  E) who performs brave and heroic deeds.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 266:

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) set of three one-act drama written by related authors
  B) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
  C) sequence of three plays written by the same author
  D) collection of three poems of equal length
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 267: 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 268:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by

  Options:
  A) circumlocution
  B) irony
  C) proverb
  D) parable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 269:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  Imagery in the play is

  Options:
  A) always sexual and licentious
  B) sometimes sexual but not licentious
  C) always sexual but not licentious
  D) sometimes sexual and licentious
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 270:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In the play the central idea is that gender equity_______?

  Options:
  A) both undesirable and unattainable
  B) desirable and unattainable
  C) attainable and desirable
  D) obnoxious and desirable
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  The correct answer is C .