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 1351:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle,

  CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.

  BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next.

  Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy when you've abandoned it for some time...

  Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

  The literary devices in the dialogue above are

  Options:
  A) humour and irony
  B) allusion and paradox
  C) irony and parody
  D) hypperbole and allusion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1352: "If you touch me,I shall smash your face with this bottle"Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters,The statement above is made by Options:
  A) Manaan to lawyer B
  B) Manaan to Mrs Bonu
  C) James to Awere
  D) Awere to Aaron
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1353: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The play is about love Options:
  A) longing and ambition
  B) pretence and hatred
  C) loss and death
  D) commitment and marriage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1354:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The Christs

  Are still in performing miracles

  In the market places

  Heroding the masses with imperatives

  Feeding the hungry

  With 21-gun salutes

  For victories that are yet to be won.'

  Odia Ofeimun, 'The Messiahs'

  The attitude of the poet to his subject in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) ironic
  B) sarcastic
  C) benevolent
  D) explosive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1355:

  A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ........

  Options:
  A) Epistrophe
  B) Ellipsis
  C) Hypallage
  D) Hendiady
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1356: These qustion is 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.Elliot's The Journey of the Magi could be said to examine the issues of Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) holy pilgrimage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1357: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, the man is despised by the wife and family because he Options:
  A) does not give them sufficient money to maintain the house
  B) does not capitalize on his education and position to get ahead
  C) does not join Koomson's political party
  D) fails in his campaign to get into the government house
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1358:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

  Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) mythical
  B) biblical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1359:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1360:

  "I came down the step with my pitcher

  And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

  Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

  Options:
  A) snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
  B) snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
  C) snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
  D) poet is terrified of the snake
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  The correct answer is C .