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 1071:

  PROSE: AFRICAN: UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN

  What distinguishes Nii Tackie from every other Ghanaian?

  Options:
  A) His accent
  B) His face
  C) His tribal mark
  D) His skin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1072: 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.Launko's End of the War portrays the Options:
  A) silence of battlefield
  B) irony of life
  C) arrangement of war
  D) usefulness of praise singers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1073:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) onomatopeia
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1074:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) protagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1075:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '

  Golding, Lord of the Flies.

  In the passage above, the conch symbolises

  Options:
  A) bestiality
  B) authority
  C) dictatorship
  D) civilization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1076:

  In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?

  Options:
  A) device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
  B) situation in which a character speaks or acts against the tread of events
  C) difficult situation which defies a local or rational resolution
  D) device in which the actor act on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1077:

  "Full fathom five thy father lies

  Of his bones are corals made

  Those are pearls that were his eyes

  Nothing of him that doth fade."The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is

  Options:
  A) baab
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) aabb
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1078: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In the theater, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) accoustic
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1079:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  '... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...

  This description refers to

  Options:
  A) Modou Fall
  B) Mawdo Ba
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Aissatou
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1080:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) diary
  B) novel
  C) novella
  D) short story
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  The correct answer is B .