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 A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) personification
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The title, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  Implies that

  Options:
  A) there could still be an upright man within an amoral society
  B) there is a possibility of moral regeneration
  C) the teacher is not involved in corruption
  D) any corrupt government will be overthrown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3: Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) denotation
  D) allusion
  E) imitation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...and we learn to sing half familiar half strange songs

  We learn to dance to half familiar half strange rhythms...'

  Options:
  A) destruction is present in almost every action
  B) nature is the sole destructive force
  C) animals are the sole destructive force
  D) birds are the sole destruction force
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  'Thou losest labour

  As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed'

  Macbeth contempt from Macduff's effort in this battle scene arises from

  Options:
  A) the quality of his military uniform
  B) the fact that he cannot be hurt by mortals
  C) the fact that the witches has given him charms
  D) the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him
  E) the fact that he is as light as Air.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6: Dramatic irony entails Options:
  A) a statement that means more than is evident to its maker
  B) a hilarious statement
  C) satirical comment
  D) a sarcastic announcement
  E) praise of the audience.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7: Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
  The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) Sadness
  B) anxiety
  C) anger
  D) nonchalance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.At the end of Ovonramwen's discussion with Gallway and Hutton, one can conclude that Ovonramwen is Options:
  A) fascinated by their gifts
  B) eager to sign the trade treaty presented
  C) suspicious about their real intentions
  D) ready to welcome them
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Aesthetics in literature has to do with the creation of

  Options:
  A) imagery
  B) lines
  C) beauty
  D) themes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses To Tears

  The events in the novel span

  Options:
  A) forty days
  B) two days
  C) five days
  D) seven days
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  The correct answer is A .