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 561:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'For seven days it rained that June;

  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

  John Updike, Wash

  The images set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) the days of Noah
  B) rain and flood in June
  C) discomfort and likely destruction
  D) an animal, insects and fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 562: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
  Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
  The writer of the above passage is Options:
  A) jealous of rich and influential people
  B) overwhelmed by the power of money
  C) contemptuous of the poor
  D) indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 563:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 564:

  These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.'yet in their finger upon Our navel

  The midwives of the spirit say

  They feel a foetal throb.

  The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs'in the Navel of the soul is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) enjambment
  C) rhythm
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 565:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."What eyes will watch our large mouths

  Shaped by the laughter of big children

  What eyes will watch our large mouths?" Birage Diop:VanityThe tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) sarcasm
  B) sacrilege
  C) chiasmus
  D) eulogy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 566:

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) nemesis
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 567:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) denotation
  C) connotation
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 568:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 569:

  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

  Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

  Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

  Options:
  A) human conscience
  B) innate evil in human nature
  C) the proximity of man and nature
  D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 570:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) confidentiality
  C) authenticity
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .