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 961: 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.''And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as Options:
  A) smart
  B) sick
  C) weak
  D) strong
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 962:

  A narrative poem must

  Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) describe natural scenery
  D) argue a question
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 963:

  "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 964:

  The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Symbolism
  C) Pathetic Fallacy
  D) Analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 965:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '

  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

  The landscape described in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) formidable
  B) friendly
  C) hostile
  D) overpowering
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 966:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation. This is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic monologue
  B) dramatic irony
  C) comic relief
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 967:

  Read the extract below and answer this question.

  But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the above extract is

  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) house movement
  C) sea waves
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 968:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

  J.P Clark:Olokun

  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 969: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  The outdooring ceremony of Araba's child, fixed for the fifth day after his birth, is opposed to by Naana because the child Options:
  A) is reincarnated in the father
  B) is still in the custody of the spirits
  C) makes the spirits angry
  D) needs the uncle's support
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 970:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.

  He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.

  He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.

  Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full

  The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

  Options:
  A) ridicule
  B) praise
  C) hatred
  D) admiration
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  The correct answer is A .