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 331:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'

  Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir

  The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) meiosis
  B) epigram
  C) allusion
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 332: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.Titubi joins the farmers' revolt Options:
  A) to ensure its success
  B) as a spy for the establishment
  C) in pursuit of Marshal
  D) to defy the police
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 333:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

  Shall my pilot be

  My inborn stars to that

  Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

  Options:
  A) burlesque
  B) rhetoric
  C) passion
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 334:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  Options:
  A) the corruption in political life
  B) an indispensable commodity
  C) the destruction of social values
  D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 335:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.A cursing rogue with a merry farce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crurch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) bbaa
  D) abba
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 336:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.The wood decay,the woods decay and fall,

  The vapour weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.

  The subject matter of the line above is

  Options:
  A) death
  B) famine
  C) storm
  D) rainfall
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 337:

  "I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Apostrophe
  C) Repetition
  D) Assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 338:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  Dzogbesa Lisa in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' can be equated to

  Options:
  A) salvation
  B) despondence
  C) poverty
  D) fate
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 339:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a work of literature, plot is constructed on

  Options:
  A) the principles of conflict
  B) exciting and memorable episodes
  C) the use of figurative language
  D) recurring events
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 340:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism is better than animalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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  The correct answer is D .