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 1001:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The plot of the novel is

  Options:
  A) cyclical
  B) achronological
  C) convoluted
  D) linear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1002:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

  Options:
  A) an anecdote
  B) a parable
  C) a fable
  D) an exemplum
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1003: 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 1004:

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

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1005: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s ''The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born''.By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that Options:
  A) there is very little hope for genuine change
  B) all corrupt politicians shall be ousted
  C) the military is the hope for salvation
  D) the beautiful ones will soon be born
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1006:

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

  In the novel, Boxer is respected for his

  Options:
  A) duplicity
  B) reticence
  C) intellect
  D) hard work
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1007: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as Options:
  A) an authentic African
  B) a cultural mulatto
  C) sophisticated African
  D) a cultured youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1008:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.One of the thematic preoccupations of Awooner's The Anvil and the Hammer is

  Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) revival of colonalism
  C) the changing face of colonial masters
  D) the good attributes of colonalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1009:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  ''From here the island of Fogo is a presence

  At Sunset

  The palm trees are slow singers of farewell

  The sail on the sea

  Writes in geometry of spume

  - departure of he who remains

  And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes

  -journey of he who never left!''

  Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) litotes
  C) hyperbole
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1010:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a

  Options:
  A) round character
  B) flat character
  C) rounded character
  D) major character
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  The correct answer is B .