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 461:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's

  'Snake' refers to

  Options:
  A) culture
  B) primitive instincts
  C) the hissing sound of a snake
  D) someone whispering to himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 462: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as Options:
  A) metanoia
  B) metaphysical
  C) metalanguage
  D) metalepsis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 463:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles. With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,

  And purple-stained mouth,'

  John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The above lines are an example of

  Options:
  A) tautology
  B) comic relief
  C) euphemism
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 464: 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 465:

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

  ...I am the twinkle of a Jewel

  But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!...'

  These lines suggest that

  Options:
  A) Sidi is superior to the Bale
  B) Sidi is weaker than the Bale
  C) Sidi is clever than the Bale
  D) the Bale is violent
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 466:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?

  Options:
  A) By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
  B) By introducing him to hermother
  C) By giving him her portrait with an inscription
  D) By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 467:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 468: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 469: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Orisaye describes Balogun Kusa as Options:
  A) a good leader
  B) a great warrior
  C) an enemy and a butcher
  D) a friend in need
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 470:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) paradox
  C) irony
  D) catastrophe
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  The correct answer is A .