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: The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called Options:
  A) prologue
  B) oxymoron
  C) apostrophe
  D) costume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2: Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were Options:
  A) completely happy
  B) a mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
  C) dominated by entirely painful incidents
  D) a mixture od sad and happy expiriences
  E) a combination of regret and hatred of the teachers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: This question is based on �Literary Principles.A literary work which imitates another in a distorted form is called Options:
  A) exodium
  B) isocohen
  C) metonymy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  The lesson which emerges from the fate of Ezeulu is that

  Options:
  A) the will of the priest is the will of his god
  B) Christianity is superior to traditional religion
  C) no man ever won judgement against his clan
  D) Captain Winterbottom was right afterall
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock

  George Eliot, Silas Marner

  In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

  Options:
  A) kind and generous friend
  B) father to everyone in the community
  C) miserly and ungracious ruler
  D) quick tempered and adamant man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  "He considers also a little fragile,because artistic:

  I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A little

  Pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and

  Straightening up to bring out the best in me."Based on Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, the "me" in the above passage is seen as

  Options:
  A) dynamic, to be cherished
  B) an object to be protected
  C) an ornament to be admired
  D) something to be tended
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

  Read the excerpt and answer question
  "And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
  And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
  And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

  The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8: Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because Options:
  A) social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
  B) revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
  C) man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
  D) revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
  E) animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.In Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm,

  The thunderstorm begins with

  Options:
  A) rain from the west
  B) rain from the east
  C) clouds from the west
  D) clouds from the east
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home', the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because Options:
  A) the acievement sems out of touchwith his society back home
  B) the tropical atmosphere is full of happiness
  C) the dispensation he meets provides mixed satisfaction
  D) he has become indifferent to his own society.
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  The correct answer is C .