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 291:

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

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 292:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a constitutional provision
  B) a copyright
  C) an authority to write
  D) an author's right
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 293:

  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.

  The most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is

  Options:
  A) simile and repetition
  B) rhythm and metaphor
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) repetition and personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 294: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The lines depict James as a Options:
  A) traditionalist
  B) christian
  C) pagan
  D) muslim
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 295:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.One of the thematic preoccupations of Awooner's The Anvil and the Hammer is

  Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) revival of colonalism
  C) the changing face of colonial masters
  D) the good attributes of colonalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 296:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

  Options:
  A) purposeful
  B) impoverished
  C) confused
  D) amused
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 297:

  Another shoal of cars swam past.
  One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
  elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
  a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

  In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) ants
  C) fish
  D) lampposts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 298:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) apostrophe
  C) elegy
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 299:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 300: A didactic piece is one in which the writer Options:
  A) teaches human lessons
  B) condemns human foibles
  C) dictates to his readers
  D) discusses dialectic themes
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  The correct answer is A .