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 1271:

  Analogy is the arrangement of two ideas that are_________

  Options:
  A) opposite
  B) similar
  C) symbolic
  D) repetitive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1272:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

  Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

  Dapped cells

  Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

  As night thieves."

  Wole Soyinka: NightThe dominant mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1273:

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

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as an

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) allegory
  C) allusion
  D) ambiguity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1274:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.

  Joseph Conrade Lord Jim

  The character in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) talking
  B) sleeping
  C) reading a literature book
  D) day-dreaming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1275: The factor which led to the collapse of the Benin Empire was Options:
  A) tribalism
  B) betrayal
  C) imperialism
  D) cheiftaincy title
  E) rivalry
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1276: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.'Since it was you who in all these thin seasons."The device employed in the line above from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, is an example of Options:
  A) anecdote
  B) aside
  C) apostrophe
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1277:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1278:

  'But it has been from the first her great mistake to meet him, marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle: all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men'.

  The sentiment expressed here about the curse on women is

  Options:
  A) that of the writer of the passage
  B) that of the lady in the passage
  C) that of the lady's parent
  D) that of everybody everywhere
  E) that of unnamed person.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1279: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1280:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) all the actors
  B) three of the actors
  C) a few of the actors
  D) an exclusive social class in the play
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  The correct answer is A .