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 481:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  In literature, a round character is associated with

  Options:
  A) change and growth
  B) stability and determination
  C) simplicity and modesty
  D) running down other characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 482:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The events in the novel are set in

  Options:
  A) a possible soccial climate
  B) the distant past
  C) a real human society
  D) an imagined world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 483: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.the medicine man links the lump discovered on the head of Nnu Ego at birth, to the Options:
  A) wound inflicted on the slave woman buried with Agbadi's wife
  B) coming back of the Agunwa to the society to live again
  C) ill-luck and tragic events attributed to a predestined fate
  D) possession of physical admirable qualities that makes her an epitoma of perfection
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 484:

  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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an irregular verse
  C) an address
  D) a free verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 485:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The literary device which anticipates that an event will take place is best described as

  Options:
  A) foreshadowing
  B) rising action
  C) flashback
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 486:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epitaph
  B) anaphora
  C) tautology
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 487: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.In the novel, Asejire refers to a Options:
  A) river
  B) town
  C) farmer
  D) cleric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 488:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...

  The rains have come, the field is prepared,

  But my field remains untilled,...

  The statement above reflects the

  Options:
  A) laziness of the farmer
  B) agony of unfulfilment
  C) agony of a wasted fertility
  D) consequences of an unrequited love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 489:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 490:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

  The heavy downpour on the night of Meka's investiture symbolises.

  Options:
  A) revelation
  B) conviction
  C) blessing
  D) mockery
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  The correct answer is D .