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 531: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as Options:
  A) characterization
  B) allegory
  C) metaphor
  D) paralellism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 532: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, The little money Nnaife makes after returning from Fernando PO is used for Options:
  A) expanding Nnu Ego's business
  B) taking care of his framily
  C) sending his children to school
  D) getting more wives
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 533:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-BugThe most dominant figure of speech in the excerpts above is

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 534: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of Options:
  A) the old generation
  B) new generation
  C) present generation
  D) successive generation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 535:

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!
  You are my mortal enemy'

  The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

  Options:
  A) allusion
  B) an ode
  C) metaphor
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 536: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In its classic form, the short story is distinguished by its Options:
  A) resolution
  B) narrative form
  C) compact plot
  D) prosaic conception
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 537: A plot in a literary work is about Options:
  A) character delineation
  B) casual arrangement of events
  C) resolution of conflicts
  D) law of poetic justic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 538:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 539: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is Options:
  A) an irony
  B) a fable
  C) a masque
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 540: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .