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 21:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.

  He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'.

  Meridian by Alice Walker

  The person described in the passage is

  Options:
  A) a lackadaisical person
  B) unsaver
  C) uninteresting
  D) a finicky individual
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 22: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs Options:
  A) when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours
  B) the night before his fishing expedition
  C) in his house
  D) at the end of the book
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 23: The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are Options:
  A) caused by circumstance
  B) self-inflicted
  C) imposed on them by enemies
  D) the act of fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 24:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

  The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

  Options:
  A) dance and songs
  B) flashback.
  C) foreshadowing
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Kofi Awoonor's poem 'Songs of Sorrow' suggests that

  Options:
  A) death is temporary
  B) life is continuous
  C) the living communicate with the dead
  D) death is final
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 26: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 27:

  A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ........

  Options:
  A) Epistrophe
  B) Ellipsis
  C) Hypallage
  D) Hendiady
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 28:

  The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

  Options:
  A) objective
  B) first-person
  C) subjective
  D) third-person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 29:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool, unruly sun,

  Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun RisingFrom the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

  Options:
  A) illumination after darkness
  B) an unnecessary evil
  C) a necessary evil
  D) a light provider
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 30:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'One man with a head

  Shaven clean as a potato

  Whispered to the rising sun,

  A red eye wiped by a tattered

  Handkerchief of clouds.'

  Mtshali, 'Men in Chains

  The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

  Options:
  A) metaphor and onomatopoeia
  B) simile and metonymy
  C) metaphor and simile
  D) personification and onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .