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 131: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) As soon as Ayo becomes the cocoa inspector
  B) Shortly before the beggars strike
  C) As soon as his mother starts kickiung against it.
  D) After their contemptuous treatment at the hands of Layeni
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 132:

  A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 133:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Point of view is a technique that is commonly associated with

  Options:
  A) the narrative structure
  B) characterization
  C) plot
  D) atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 134:

  In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) litotes
  C) exaggeration
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 135:

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

  'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'

  Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannical?

  Options:
  A) He says Donald must not befriend Elizabeth - Jane
  B) He asks Abel Whittle to go to Blackmoor vale half naked
  C) He dismisses Jopp, his former manager
  D) He decides not to marry Lucetta on Susan's return.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 136:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 137:

  Pick out the odd item

  Options:
  A) a Raisin in the Sun
  B) Twelfth Night
  C) Ozidi
  D) The Concubine
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 138:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a

  Options:
  A) round character
  B) flat character
  C) rounded character
  D) major character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 139:

  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 140:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.

  Sweet smile in time of snari gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .