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 1341: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man? Options:
  A) Caliph should go into exile
  B) The war should start immediately
  C) the palace should be vacated
  D) Caliph should seek support from neighbours
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1342:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

  Options:
  A) romanesque
  B) grotesque
  C) picaresque
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1343: 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 1344:

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

  'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'.

  Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

  The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1345: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1346: These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.In the novel Nwokocha Agbadi is famous for his oratorical power and Options:
  A) height
  B) illiteracy
  C) wealth
  D) treachery
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1347:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____

  Options:
  A) is a virgin
  B) has a wealthy family
  C) is of marriageable age
  D) is free from her family
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1348:

  "... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: Casualties"

  The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Personification
  C) Synecdoche
  D) Metonymy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1349: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The sides of a stage are called Options:
  A) the ways
  B) both sides
  C) the pits
  D) the wings
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1350: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, the type of fish caught by Santiago after days of effort is Options:
  A) geisha
  B) shark
  C) iris
  D) marlin
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  The correct answer is D .