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 1521:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Periphrasis in poetic diction is marked by

  Options:
  A) circumlocution
  B) irony
  C) proverb
  D) parable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1522:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  David Diop's Loser of Everything can be seen as

  Options:
  A) a lamentation of the destruction of African values
  B) the suppression of an African village
  C) a celebration of African values
  D) an account of warfare between an African community and an invading force
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1523:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) prosody
  C) pun
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1524:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1525:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The predominant use of the third-person pronoun in a novel creates a

  Options:
  A) sense of detachment on the part of the writer
  B) sense of detachment on the part of the reader
  C) psychological affinity with the characters
  D) balance of opinion among the characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1526:

  "... 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 1527:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate, Hardcastle's daughter, agrees to her father's choice of a husband for her but is critical of the

  Options:
  A) mother's non-participation in the choice
  B) long notice given her of the suitor's arrival
  C) custom which allows her father to choose for her
  D) suitor's reserved and bashful nature
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1528:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The epilogue of the play deals with the

  Options:
  A) impermanence of nature
  B) impermanence of love
  C) impermanence of nature and womanhood
  D) shortness of love and life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1529:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her

  Options:
  A) indiscretion
  B) beauty
  C) wit
  D) brawn
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1530:

  » This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Willy's first words show that his coming back is

  Options:
  A) ill-timed
  B) too early
  C) not expected
  D) normal
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  The correct answer is C .