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 1371: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In its classic form, the short story is distinguished by its Options:
  A) resolution
  B) narrative form
  C) compact plot
  D) prosaic conception
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1372:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

  Options:
  A) Islamic and modern traditions
  B) pre-Islamic and Islamic traditions
  C) pre-Islamic traditions
  D) pre-Islamic and modern traditions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1373:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
  "for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

  The poetic device used in this expression is____

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) irony
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1374:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'His round cheeks, his round nose, his round chin were a cool, healthy red. In the globe of his face and neatly circular as if drawn in bright crayon, his narrow long, tip tilted eyes, clear a pale blue water, seemed out of place, as if two incompatible strains had collided in making him.'

  The picture presented above of a particular individual has

  Options:
  A) photographic clarity
  B) satiric undertones
  C) elements of exaggeration
  D) derogatory connotations
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1375:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.'

  Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.

  In the excerpt above,the subject's experience in the lift is

  Options:
  A) timely
  B) unpleasant
  C) amusing
  D) comfortable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1376:

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

  '...Tide and market come and go

  And so shall your mother.'

  The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside

  Exchange' depict the

  Options:
  A) variation of season
  B) changing periods of marketing
  C) constancy of nature
  D) importance of living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1377: "Of o cam fastem nut one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already. He'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog..." Shakespeare, Othello
  From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is Options:
  A) disobedient
  B) quarrelsome
  C) drunkard
  D) scheming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1378:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The most important concepts in poetry are:

  Options:
  A) story and action
  B) plot and rhythm
  C) rhythm and imagery
  D) plot and character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1379: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1380:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

  Options:
  A) stops the main story to narrate other events
  B) creates a lot of funny episodes
  C) puts too many difficulties in Adans way
  D) shows that Francis is weaks
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  The correct answer is B .