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:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A statement whose meaning is contrary to that openly expressed is an example of

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) oxymoron
  C) irony
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 112: In Soyinka's 'Abiku', the statement, 'The ripest fruit was saddest', is an example of Options:
  A) metaphysical conceit
  B) equivocation
  C) slasng
  D) a paradox
  E) a proverb
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 113: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  It can be safely assumed that the novel is Options:
  A) culturally simple
  B) structurally complex
  C) naturally simple
  D) physically revlevant
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 114: Which of the following was not written by Wole Soyinka? Options:
  A) The interpreters
  B) The Lion and the jewel
  C) The Trials of Brother Jero
  D) Kongi's Harvest
  E) The Strong Breed.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 115:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems 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: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 116:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Jero is aptly described in the play as

  Options:
  A) neat
  B) suave
  C) polished
  D) lofty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 117:

  A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Aside
  C) Parallelism
  D) Irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 118:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  What is the dominant poetic device used in Christopher Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder?

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) Symbolism
  C) Parallelism
  D) Rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 119:

  'A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother's hut and tears stood in his eyes.'

  The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

  Options:
  A) death of Unoka
  B) killing of Ikemefuna
  C) exiling of Okonkwo
  D) transfer of Mr. Brown
  E) imprisonment of Okonkwo.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 120: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
  'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to Options:
  A) allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
  B) accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
  C) surrender himself to the whiteman
  D) surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
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  The correct answer is C .