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 731:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Still stand stubborn

  To stones that strangle the dawn,

  Still stand stubborn

  To stones that maim the morn,

  Still stand stubborn

  To stones that assail the sun'

  Atukwei Okai, 'Sunset Sonata'

  The dominant literary device employed in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) metonymy
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 732:

  What basically distinguishes literature from other disciplines is its________

  Options:
  A) use of creative imagination
  B) exposition of human experiences
  C) communication of ideas
  D) portrayal of places
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 733:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 734:

  'He says

  The medicine gourds are filthy,

  And the herb

  Are drunk from unhygienic cups'

  Okot p Bitek: Song of LawinoThe poet in the lines is saying that

  Options:
  A) the speaker is very hygienic
  B) the person referred to takes Western medicine
  C) herbal medicine is dangerous
  D) the speaker prefers Western medicine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 735:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ocol rejects the old type.

  He is in love with a modern woman

  He is in love with a beautiful girl

  Who speaks English.'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  The writer of the lines above

  Options:
  A) ridicules Ocol's value judgment
  B) is critical of the modern woman
  C) appraises people who speak English
  D) shuns the old type of woman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 736:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 737: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionIt can be deduced from the play that Options:
  A) drug pushing is lucrative
  B) no crime will go unpunished
  C) the wealthy also cry
  D) people will always complain
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 738: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The central conflict in the play is Options:
  A) religious
  B) romantic
  C) generational
  D) communal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 739:

  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 740: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .