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 1331:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1332: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1333:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1334:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Hardcastle:

  And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Mrs. Hardcastle,

  You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

  The dialogue above reveals the couple's

  Options:
  A) fear of the unknown
  B) difference in lifestyle
  C) love for each other
  D) humorous disposition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1335:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

  Options:
  A) has little money for her
  B) condisers the trade in furmity unscrupulous
  C) thinks it is not respectable to talk to the old women
  D) has learned what she wanted from the old woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1336:

  "But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

  Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

  The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

  Options:
  A) first person narrator
  B) protagonist
  C) antagonist
  D) omniscient narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1337: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The spatial setting of the play is Options:
  A) verona
  B) padua
  C) venice
  D) athens
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1338:

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

  What is the source of Aissatou's success in life?

  Options:
  A) Vengeance
  B) Feminine courage
  C) Social connections
  D) Luck
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1339:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!

  Life and desire and dreams and death

  Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,

  The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) praise
  C) symbolism
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1340:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  J.P Clak's 'Streamside Exchange, depicts an interplay of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and passion
  B) anxiety and ignorance
  C) excitement and passion
  D) ignorance and wisdom
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  The correct answer is B .