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 691:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The real victims are

  Options:
  A) Ndidi and Ogo
  B) Nwanze and Obanua
  C) Ubaka and Bomboy
  D) Nwabunor and Ogugua
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 692:

  A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) interlude
  C) flashback
  D) foreshadowing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 693:

  These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

  Use the quotation below to answer these two questions

  'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?

  Wole Soyinka: King BaabuFrom the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

  Options:
  A) lackadaisical
  B) elated
  C) happy
  D) enraged
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 694:

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) psycho-consciousness styles
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) shifting style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 695:

  An overused expression is a/an _________

  Options:
  A) Cliche
  B) Cacophony
  C) Epigram
  D) Archetype
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 696:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!

  You are my mortal enemy'.

  The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) allusion
  C) apostrophe
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 697: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 698:

  From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala

  It can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that

  Options:
  A) the secret of happiness is to be found among unsophisticated Africans
  B) every man is free to set his own goals and chart his own course in life
  C) formal education is the ideal way to true wisdom
  D) it is highly rewarding to abide scrupulously by the mores of one's own community.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 699:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

  Options:
  A) purposeful
  B) impoverished
  C) confused
  D) amused
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 700: 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 Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .