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 671: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.The movement in Adeoti's Naked Soles is characterized by Options:
  A) hope and agreement
  B) freedom and self-determination
  C) pricks and tears
  D) dissapointed and disarray
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 672:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) tells untrue stories
  B) is relevant to life
  C) deals with exciting and memorable events
  D) presents fictional accounts of human experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 673:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.'The reception for this third marriage was being held at the home of the young girl's parents. In this, ancient custom was being more tan just respected, it was revived. The house had been invaded since early morning.

  Male female griots welcomed guests'.

  Sembene Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The atmosphere captured in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) solemn and gay
  B) joyful and gloomy
  C) grandiose and joyful
  D) gracious and solemn
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 674: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. From the play, the character of Aaron represents the Options:
  A) new generation
  B) old generation
  C) painters
  D) art work
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 675: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Odia Ofeimuun's We must Learn Again to Fly, the use of 'we' gives the poem a Options:
  A) universal appeal
  B) personifying effect
  C) symbolic undertone
  D) dramatic sensation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 676:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...

  The rains have come, the field is prepared,

  But my field remains untilled,...

  The statement above reflects the

  Options:
  A) laziness of the farmer
  B) agony of unfulfilment
  C) agony of a wasted fertility
  D) consequences of an unrequited love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 677:

  'There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's lives!'

  The speaker uses a string of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) parables
  C) metaphors
  D) riddles
  E) understatements.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 678: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for Options:
  A) Nwakusor
  B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
  C) Nwaeze
  D) Ngozi
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 679:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 680:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

  "She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is C .