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 571:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  '...He risked his life that you may boast

  A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-

  You sell him to the rhyming rabble

  Gloating in your disloyalty...

  In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to

  Options:
  A) clowns who wait on the Bale
  B) children in Lakunle's school
  C) professional singers
  D) the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 572: In literary devices, pun deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 573:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

  Options:
  A) is an accomplished lady
  B) is from a very god family
  C) understands farm life
  D) is a good Christian
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 574:

  _____ is used to describe the predetermination of a future event in a literary piece

  Options:
  A) Analepsis
  B) Prolepsis
  C) Interlude
  D) Fatalism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 575:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  In the play, the Oba's poetic language reveals his

  Options:
  A) humility
  B) heroism
  C) nobility
  D) haughtiness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 576: The predominant use of the third person pronoun in a novel creates a Options:
  A) sense of detachment on the part of the writer
  B) sense of detachment on the part of the reader
  C) psychological affinity with the characters
  D) balance of opinion among the characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 577:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.

  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'

  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) rejection
  B) anger
  C) protest
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 578: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as Options:
  A) mime
  B) paradox
  C) criticism
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 579: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 580:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

  Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'

  The stanza above succinctly presents the

  Options:
  A) problem of war
  B) problem of hunger
  C) folly of soldiers
  D) repercussion of violence
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  The correct answer is D .