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 1:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is

  Options:
  A) deja vu
  B) avant-garde
  C) medieval
  D) metaphysical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) imagery
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence's poem 'Snake' arises from

  Options:
  A) education and love
  B) fascination and fear
  C) anger and hospitability
  D) protest and regret
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  'A dungeon horrible, one all sides round'

  As one great furnace flamed, yet for those flames

  No light, but rather darkness visible'.

  The phrase 'darkness visible' in the above lines is an example of

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) oxymoron
  D) litotes.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jessie Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer,Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6: '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.'One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is Options:
  A) education
  B) slavery
  C) colonisation
  D) corruption
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 7: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8: The Yoruba incantatory poem, 'When a Strainer Takes in Water', is meant to be recited in order to Options:
  A) excape capture
  B) promote sales
  C) ensure good harvest
  D) escape retribution
  E) prevent road mishaps
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: Girls dance and sing. Men clap .The walls sing and press inward. They press the men and girls, they press inward. They press the men and girls they press John towards a centre of physical ecstasy .Tom whom does 'they refer? Options:
  A) Men
  B) Girls
  C) Men and Girls
  D) The walls
  E) John and the girls
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a constitutional provision
  B) a copyright
  C) an authority to write
  D) an author's right
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  The correct answer is B .