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 471: "If you touch me,I shall smash your face with this bottle"Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters,The statement above is made by Options:
  A) Manaan to lawyer B
  B) Manaan to Mrs Bonu
  C) James to Awere
  D) Awere to Aaron
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 472: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 473:

  'To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
  And eternity in an hour'
  - William Blake
  To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
  The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) paradox
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 474:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A melodramatic play isbased on

  Options:
  A) a melodious manipulation of events
  B) ingredients that mellow down events
  C) sensational plot and characters
  D) the playwright's didactic overtones
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 475:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...'

  Shakespeare, Othello

  From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) disobedient
  B) quarrelsome
  C) servile
  D) scheming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 476:

  A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called

  Options:
  A) tetrametre
  B) rhythm
  C) caesura
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 477:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's first-person narrative techinique

  Options:
  A) makes the work very humorous
  B) makes his work less realistic
  C) quickens the tempo of his narrative
  D) makes his story more believable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 478:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'When our Dead come with their Dead

  When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'

  These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to

  Options:
  A) the way in which the dead communicate with us
  B) the clash of cultures in modern civilization
  C) the elders' lack of sophistication
  D) our inability to understand our ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 479: A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as Options:
  A) exclamation
  B) litotes
  C) metonymy
  D) hyperbole
  E) antonym.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 480:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

  Options:
  A) motif
  B) ritual
  C) myth
  D) concept
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  The correct answer is A .