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 821:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He sprung about the room in thick socks, from fridge to bread bin to table, where he buttered and chopped and sliced and sprinkled. Deft and efficient; lithe like a cat, or a ballet dancer'.

  Georgina Hammick, Habits

  The passage above suggests

  Options:
  A) haste
  B) lack of organization
  C) controlled movement
  D) untidiness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 822:

  "Rays of sun peepingthrough the cloud", the line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Apostrophe
  D) Personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 823:

  "Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,

  Whose word no man relies on,

  Who never said a foolish thing

  Nor ever did a wise one,"Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an example of

  Options:
  A) praise poem
  B) lamentation
  C) an epigram
  D) satiric poem
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 824: 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 825: 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.In Lawrence's Bat, the poet compares bats with Options:
  A) sparrows
  B) swans
  C) swallows
  D) crows
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 826: The major source of action in any narrative is Options:
  A) exposition
  B) conflict
  C) climax
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 827:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.Madawaki: The whiteman is an uninvited guest to our land, he must observe, not dictate

  The statement above is prompted by the

  Options:
  A) abolition of slave trade
  B) undermining of caliphal authority
  C) introduction of direct rule
  D) imposition of taxes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 828:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

  The furrow followed free;

  We were the first that ever burst

  Into that silent sea...'

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T.

  Coleridge

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 829:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The death of Prince can be said to

  Options:
  A) portray Tess as a fated character
  B) reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  C) cause Tesas'misfortunes
  D) foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 830: '...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he Options:
  A) he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
  B) exiled Aderopo from his presence
  C) treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
  D) no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
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  The correct answer is A .