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 111: When the speech is written so as to be understood in one way by a certain character, while the audience or another character understands it to have some secret and special meaning, the literary device used in this context is called Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) paradox
  C) allusion
  D) hyperbole.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 112:

  The clouds were thickening in the red sky

  And night and charmed

  A black power into the pounding waves...'

  The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi

  Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
  E) synecocdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 113: Point out the odd term Options:
  A) Enjambment
  B) Rhyme
  C) Alliteration
  D) Assonance
  E) plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 114:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?

  Options:
  A) her parents
  B) Jimmy
  C) Helena
  D) Cliff
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 115:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 116:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The images depicted are those of

  Options:
  A) poverty and opulence
  B) opulence and brutality
  C) suffering and depression
  D) suffering and brutality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 117: The main purpose of drama is to Options:
  A) tell the story of dead people
  B) teach us how to write
  C) educate us
  D) entertain us
  E) both educate and entertain us.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 118:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which

  Options:
  A) the serious is treated in a satirical way
  B) subordination of characterization to plot occurs
  C) music and dance predominate
  D) evil triumphs over good
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 119: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Odia Ofeimuun's We must Learn Again to Fly, the use of 'we' gives the poem a Options:
  A) universal appeal
  B) personifying effect
  C) symbolic undertone
  D) dramatic sensation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 120:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a constitutional provision
  B) a copyright
  C) an authority to write
  D) an author's right
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  The correct answer is B .