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 literary genre which directly imitates human action is Options:
  A) drama
  B) comedy
  C) prose
  D) poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) denotation
  C) connotation
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and Options:
  A) custom
  B) turth
  C) urgency
  D) origin
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The line 'under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres' in Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' is a good example of

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) metonymy
  C) contrast
  D) similitude
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5:

  "Lift not the painted veil which those who live

  Call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there,

  And it mimic all we would believe

  With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.' P.B. Shelley:SonnetThe stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) sestet
  C) quatrain
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

  We sang that song before

  In the thousand seasons of good harvest

  And full fish fo0llowing our father's footprints

  On the long shores.A poetic device consciously used by Awoonor in these lines (from more message) is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) alliteration
  C) simile
  D) onomotopoeia
  E) personification.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?

  Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay

  In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

  Options:
  A) put the addressee on the defensive
  B) show off to listener
  C) provike a fight
  D) find out the truth from the addresee
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because Options:
  A) his pay was poor
  B) he wanted to join the army
  C) he quarrelled with his wife often
  D) he wanted to break away and be on his own
  E) he liked to travel.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.

  Oculi, 'Orphan'

  These lines illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) sadism
  B) sophism
  C) satire
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is D .