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 1031: What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its Options:
  A) emotion and feeling
  B) ungrammatical expressions
  C) irony and paradox
  D) rhyme and verse
  E) rhyme and metaphor.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1032:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

  Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

  The literary term used for this kind of writing is

  Options:
  A) biography
  B) autograph
  C) orthography
  D) autobiography
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1033:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'The dum, dum of the drum' is a good example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1034: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as Options:
  A) political and rhetorical
  B) arrogant and condemnatory
  C) urgent but apolitical
  D) poetic but difficult
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1035: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  What causes the strained relationship between James and Lawyer B? Options:
  A) Betrayal of trust
  B) Standard of education
  C) Working experience
  D) Family differences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1036:

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

  The subject matter of the novel is

  Options:
  A) marital infidelity
  B) the evils of materialism
  C) child àbuse
  D) the gains of love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1037: In 'Nuit de Sine,'the word 'dark' in 'listern to our dark blood beat' is used Options:
  A) figuratively
  B) scientifically
  C) literally
  D) imaginatively
  E) culturally
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1038: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as Options:
  A) allegory
  B) assonance
  C) metre
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1039:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The madman has entered our house with violence

  Defiling our sacred grounds

  Claiming the single truth of the universe

  Bending down our high priests with iron,'

  Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'

  The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of

  Options:
  A) coercion
  B) religiousity
  C) truth
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1040:

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

  '....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

  What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

  Options:
  A) The visit of the court messenger
  B) The unexpected consultation of Ezeulu with the chiefs of Umuaro
  C) The friendship between Ezeulu and the whiteman
  D) Ezeulu's rejection of the kind gesture of some chiefs to accompany him to Okperi
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  The correct answer is C .