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 521: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersA brother to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) George
  B) Awere
  C) Hannah
  D) Awao
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 522:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The title, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  Implies that

  Options:
  A) there could still be an upright man within an amoral society
  B) there is a possibility of moral regeneration
  C) the teacher is not involved in corruption
  D) any corrupt government will be overthrown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 523:

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

  When he came back from Operi I went to his house and he talked like a sane man. I reminded him of saying that a man must dance the dance prevailing in his time...'

  The above statement was made by Ofoka about

  Options:
  A) Nwaka
  B) Akuebue
  C) Ezeulu
  D) Obika
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 524:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The war in the play symbolizes the struggle between the

  Options:
  A) capitalists and the socialists
  B) bourgeoisie and the proteriat
  C) market women and the men
  D) farmers and the consumers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 525: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In the novel, it is necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of the safety of her child
  B) of her love for Agbadi
  C) her father is dead
  D) that is the tradition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 526:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'There was something very disturbing about his features today, there was something which suggested an untidiness of a sort rather like a cotton dress washed in salty water and worn until it reeks of human sweet. There was something very vulnerable about his looks, something quite restless.

  Nuruddin Farah, 'Sweet and Sour Milk'

  The passage above illustrates the use of

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) deus ex machina
  C) trance
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 527: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called Options:
  A) dialetic
  B) decadent
  C) definitive
  D) didactic.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 528:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 529:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A paradox is

  Options:
  A) applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
  B) a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
  C) an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
  D) an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 530:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The branch of knowledge that places emphasis on beauty is

  Options:
  A) censure
  B) aesthetics
  C) philosophy
  D) philology
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  The correct answer is B .