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 621:

  In Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Older', another significant theme therein is on the___________

  Options:
  A) fear of natural disasters
  B) uncertainties of life
  C) futility of war
  D) essence of mankind and nature
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 622:

  Awonoor's 'The Anvil and the Hammer' is best described as a/an___________

  Options:
  A) free verse
  B) blank verse
  C) ode
  D) apologue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 623: The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in "The Fence" is Options:
  A) action
  B) inertia
  C) nostalgia
  D) cowardice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 624: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters,Now look what we have:a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!'
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) suspense
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) oxymoron
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 625: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) tetrametre
  C) assonance
  D) caesura
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 626:

  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.

  'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing

  Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap

  The extract above from Wole Soyinka's

  Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between

  Options:
  A) madam and receiver
  B) tenant and telephone
  C) landlady and tenant
  D) receiver and thunderclap
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 627:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 628:

  A novel written in form of a letter is said to be_______

  Options:
  A) gothic
  B) biographical
  C) epistolary
  D) autobiographical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 629: 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 630:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

  Do you bring some balm

  To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

  Away, your enemy!'

  What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

  Options:
  A) An antiseptic ointment
  B) A special method of massage
  C) News about Sidi
  D) A gourd of palm wine
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  The correct answer is C .