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 631:

  Read the extract below and this answer question.The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of

  Dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream

  As it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.

  The underline expression in line 3 is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 632:

  "But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

  Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

  The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

  Options:
  A) first person narrator
  B) protagonist
  C) antagonist
  D) omniscient narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 633: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, the gods are portrayed as Options:
  A) saviours of mankind
  B) helpless
  C) architects of man's destiny
  D) amorous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 634:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  The novel is an expose of the

  Options:
  A) pre-eminent position of boys in lgboland
  B) experiences of Adah's mother in the police cell
  C) travalls of the girl-child
  D) marriage customs of the lgbo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 635:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is to

  Options:
  A) take to prostition
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abando their husbands
  D) abadon their children
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 636: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's Options:
  A) anger
  B) procrastination
  C) fear
  D) disendantment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 637: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 638:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

  And it but mimic all we would believe

  With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

  P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

  The stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) quatrain
  B) couplet
  C) free verse
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 639: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  How does Lugard describe the battle between the white man and the Sokoto Caliphate? Options:
  A) One between superior and inferior powers
  B) One of life and death
  C) One between Christians and Muslims
  D) One of the superiority of wills
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 640:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .