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 271:

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) She falls asleep
  B) She is dead
  C) She is awake
  D) She runs away
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 272:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) exposition
  C) structure
  D) symbol
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 273: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
  Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
  The mood of the quotation in this passage is Options:
  A) tragically comic
  B) deadly serious
  C) playfully serious
  D) humorously comic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 274:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who remains unchanged in a work of art is called

  Options:
  A) a stereotypic character
  B) a flat character
  C) a round character
  D) an illusive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 275:

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

  In the novel, Serah dies of

  Options:
  A) haemorrhoids
  B) gunshot wounds
  C) asthma
  D) asphyxiation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 276: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 277: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Which of the following forms of poetry is an example of a monologue? Options:
  A) Lament
  B) Ode
  C) Sonnet
  D) Epic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 278:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as an

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) allegory
  C) allusion
  D) ambiguity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 279: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is Options:
  A) synaesthesia
  B) synecdoche
  C) metonymy
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 280:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder'is a prophetic poem because it

  Options:
  A) correctly predicts the end of those who abuse power
  B) predicts the coming of military rulers
  C) pictures the return of politicians to the scene
  D) picture the poet going to hell
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  The correct answer is A .