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 981:

  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 982: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Monometer is a Options:
  A) single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel'
  B) line repeated in the first syllable of a word
  C) single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
  D) line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 983: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  In the novel, Africanness is achieved in both Options:
  A) setting and characterization
  B) narration and style
  C) diction and syntax
  D) pun and style
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 984:

  'To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
  And eternity in an hour'
  - William Blake
  To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
  The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) paradox
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 985: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The play opens with a conversation between Aaron and Awere about Options:
  A) Aaron's choice of course
  B) Maanan's encounter with the lawyer
  C) George qnd Kofi
  D) Hannah and George
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 986:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  In Clark's Agbor Dancer, the drum is central to the message because it

  Options:
  A) portrays the drummer as an expert
  B) reminds the poet of his cultural roots
  C) provides the rhythm for the dancer
  D) draws the spectators to the dancing arena
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 987:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'There was something very disturbing about his features today, there was something which suggested an untidiness of a sort rather like a cotton dress washed in salty water and worn until it reeks of human sweet. There was something very vulnerable about his looks, something quite restless.

  Nuruddin Farah, 'Sweet and Sour Milk'

  The passage above illustrates the use of

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) deus ex machina
  C) trance
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 988:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'Now I fear disturbance of the quiet season Winter shall come bringing death from the sea

  Ruinous spring shall beat at our doors

  Root and shoot shall eat eyes and our ears'.

  The dramatic technique employed in this passage is

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) anticlimax
  C) foreshadowing
  D) flasback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 989:

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

  The writer's satire is most biting when applied to

  Options:
  A) the Hastings
  B) Mr. Hardcastle
  C) Young Marlow
  D) Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 990:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .