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 31:

  How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...

  The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 32: A significant of a whole through its significant part is Options:
  A) allegory
  B) pun
  C) synecdoche
  D) cast
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 33:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  In literary convention, 'aside' is used to

  Options:
  A) make a pointed remark
  B) emphasize scenes as different from acts
  C) distinguish between events
  D) gossip about other characters
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .
• Question 34:

  'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'

  The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

  Options:
  A) pprophecy
  B) courage
  C) truth
  D) justice.
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 35:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '''Yet lunchtime ''

  Without thinking of what of what he was saying

  The man tapped out, 'Not food'.

  Insu Siding answered, 'Plenty here''.

  And a conversation had begun.

  ''Lucky''.

  ''Come. Transfer. Easy''

  ''Can't.''

  ''Why?''

  ''Secret.''

  ''Familu?''

  ''Secret''.

  The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by A.K. Armah.

  This is an example of a dialogue that is

  Options:
  A) pitchy
  B) witty
  C) laconic
  D) simple
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 36:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  In the play, the central idea is that gender equality is

  Options:
  A) both undersirable and unattainable
  B) attainable and desirable
  C) obnoxious but desirable
  D) desirable but unattainable
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 37: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.Launko's End of the War portrays the Options:
  A) silence of battlefield
  B) irony of life
  C) arrangement of war
  D) usefulness of praise singers
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 38:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  Nwaka's hostility to Ezeulu is attributable to

  Options:
  A) his great wealth and sense of importance
  B) the rivalry between Umuneora and Umuachala
  C) the instigation of Ezidemili
  D) his jealousy of Ezeulu's mysterious powers
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 39: The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called Options:
  A) prologue
  B) oxymoron
  C) apostrophe
  D) costume
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 40:

  A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Aside
  C) Parallelism
  D) Irony
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .