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 1281:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Yaremi's only son is______?

  Options:
  A) Alani
  B) Wande
  C) Olode
  D) Deyo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1282:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

  Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

  The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) assonance
  C) oxymoron
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1283: Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is Options:
  A) milly offended by the daughter's behaviour
  B) truly outraged by the daughter's behaviour
  C) merely pretending to be outraged by the daughter's behaviour
  D) deeply offended by the daughter's behaviour
  E) indifferent to the daughter's behaviour
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1284:

  'Vanished. Transported. Utterly transmuted.

  I knew it. i knew i stood in the presence of God...

  This statement of Ecstasy was made in The Trials Of Brother Jero by

  Options:
  A) Brother Jero
  B) Chume
  C) the old prophet
  D) the unnamed penitent woman
  E) the unnamed member of parliament.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1285:

  Woke, once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved. are

  Sides full nerved still warm too hard

  To stir was it, for this the clay grew

  Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams

  Toil to break earth's sleep at allUse the lines above to answer this questions;The theme of the poem is

  Options:
  A) distortion of life
  B) creation of life
  C) vanity of life
  D) futility of life
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1286: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust...
  Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters
  The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) visual
  C) tactile
  D) auditory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1287: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native SonThe story is narrated using the Options:
  A) Omniscient
  B) limited omniscient
  C) objective
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1288:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1289: This question is based on General literacy principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is Options:
  A) parallelism
  B) assonance
  C) alliteration
  D) pun
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1290:

  'The dun dun of a drum' is an example of an__________

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) assonance
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .