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 381:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 382:

  "He considers also a little fragile,because artistic:

  I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A little

  Pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and

  Straightening up to bring out the best in me."Based on Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, the "me" in the above passage is seen as

  Options:
  A) dynamic, to be cherished
  B) an object to be protected
  C) an ornament to be admired
  D) something to be tended
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 383:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The branch of knowledge that places emphasis on beauty is

  Options:
  A) censure
  B) aesthetics
  C) philosophy
  D) philology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 384:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) dramatis personae
  C) contrived manipulation
  D) dramatic reversals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 385: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 386: The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 387:

  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 388: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for Options:
  A) eighteen months
  B) two decades
  C) twelve years
  D) fourty days
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 389:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Motivation in any work is the

  Options:
  A) special figure of speech that is used in the work
  B) ovation encountered in the work
  C) difficult expression found in the work
  D) explanation of the behaviour of the characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 390: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, is devised to Options:
  A) meet the ideological needs of lngsoc
  B) help devoted party men and women
  C) provide a medium of expression for world view only
  D) assist by cutting the choice of words for party members
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  The correct answer is A .