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 1401:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

  Shall my pilot be

  My inborn stars to that

  Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

  Options:
  A) burlesque
  B) rhetoric
  C) passion
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1402:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  '....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

  What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

  Options:
  A) The visit of the court messenger
  B) The unexpected consultation of Ezeulu with the chiefs of Umuaro
  C) The friendship between Ezeulu and the whiteman
  D) Ezeulu's rejection of the kind gesture of some chiefs to accompany him to Okperi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1403:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In their fight, the women settle at Eyara in order to_______?

  Options:
  A) Cure cross-piece
  B) Hurt their husbands
  C) Forestall reconciliation
  D) Seeks peace
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1404: The tendency in words to echo the meaning by the actual sound is called Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) assonance
  C) alliteration
  D) rhyme
  E) phonetics.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1405:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

  The play is pre occupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from males domination
  D) Women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1406:

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

  'When our Dead come with their Dead

  When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'

  These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to

  Options:
  A) the way in which the dead communicate with us
  B) the clash of cultures in modern civilization
  C) the elders' lack of sophistication
  D) our inability to understand our ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1407:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  Nwaka's hostility to Ezeulu is attributable to

  Options:
  A) his great wealth and sense of importance
  B) the rivalry between Umuneora and Umuachala
  C) the instigation of Ezidemili
  D) his jealousy of Ezeulu's mysterious powers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1408: In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet Options:
  A) warns about the danger of elephants
  B) tells the story of Elephants
  C) describes the attributes of the elephants
  D) shows where to find elephants
  E) wants the destructions of elephants
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1409: The expression "The sun kisses the earth" is a Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) personification
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1410: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was Options:
  A) born an eccentric
  B) cruelly ill-used by a man
  C) by nature nasty and shy of company
  D) badly brought up
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  The correct answer is B .