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 411:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.

  But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.

  Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'

  The passage above is an example of

  Options:
  A) hyperbolism
  B) juxtaposition
  C) understatement
  D) didactism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 412:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

  Kabria's second child is

  Options:
  A) Ottu
  B) Adade
  C) Essie
  D) Obea
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 413:

  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.'Woman cannot exist except by man

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?

  The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) transferred epithet
  C) synechdoche
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 414:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock

  George Eliot, Silas Marner

  In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

  Options:
  A) kind and generous friend
  B) father to everyone in the community
  C) miserly and ungracious ruler
  D) quick tempered and adamant man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 415: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The stage direction at the end of the play reveals Options:
  A) the actors in a changing room
  B) Mama Kayode raising the song of hope
  C) Moremi and Titubi in harsh spotlights
  D) the Dirctor making a farewell speech.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 416:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'For seven days it rained that June;

  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

  John Updike, Wash

  The images set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) the days of Noah
  B) rain and flood in June
  C) discomfort and likely destruction
  D) an animal, insects and fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 417:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The witnesses to the tears in the novelare

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 418:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The play is built on

  Options:
  A) mistaken identities
  B) sentiments and realities
  C) comedy of errors
  D) conttrasts of characters and ideas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 419:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's 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 D .
• Question 420: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Erelu is Options:
  A) the first wife of the Oba
  B) the oldest wife of the Oba Akinjobi
  C) a courtier to the Alaafin of Oyo
  D) the most brilliant woman in Owu
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  The correct answer is B .